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...Cheaper. The CAB did try to build some limits into the ABC plan so as not to entirely undercut the scheduled carriers. Airlines or charter operators, for example, may cancel a flight altogether under ABC if enough passengers do not show up; they may also change arrival and departure dates. Passengers who cancel will forfeit what the CAB described as a "substantial portion" of ticket costs. ABC also will be restrained by other rules, such as prohibiting charter operators from raising ticket prices if a flight is not fully booked, so prices may well be pegged high enough to offset...
Typical of the week's victims was a widow, Mary Ndhovu, the mother of five children, who used to run a fleet of three taxis left to her by her husband. One cab was hijacked and burned out by black youths at the beginning of the Soweto disturbances in June. Last week, fearful of breaking the boycott, she kept her remaining taxis at home. But at midweek a youth, fleeing a Zulu gang, ran through the garden of her home. The enraged Zulus, thinking she had given him refuge, kicked down her front door, smashed her furniture and windows...
Smith and Bull are one of the odder couples in publishing. Irish Catholic Smith grew up in a Manhattan tenement, quit school at 15 to deliver flowers, drive a cab, and rope cattle in Nevada-all the while writing poems and short stories. Eventually, he worked his way through New York University. A $7,500-a-year fireman 13 years ago, Smith is worth nearly $1 million today, thanks to book earnings and the sale of the movie rights for Engine Co. 82 to Paramount Pictures. He drives to the firehouse in a Mercedes and lives...
...watched defenseless delegates from the Democratic National Convention strolling blithely along Eighth Avenue near Times Square one night last week, a native New Yorker feared for their safety. "I kept wanting to shout to them to jump in a cab and get out of there," he exclaimed. "But then I noticed that the whole street was strangely quiet. Most of the usual weird people weren't there...
...delegates, alternates, friends, relatives and sundry spear carriers were not even there. It surely must have seemed that way, at least, to numerous barkeeps, concessionaires and other small businessmen, who had been anticipating a bonanza and were bitterly disappointed when none materialized. One cab driver was particularly irritated with the city for carting delegates around in buses. "I got me a sack for all the money I was gonna make on this," he complained. "Now I gotta sell the sack to eat. Business is terrible...