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...unlike other parts of Boston, there was no mass exit at 12:30. The people here had enough money to pay a five dollar cover charge (two drinks included,) fifty cents for a mandatory coat check, $1.75 for additional drinks and eighty-five cents for a pack of cigarettes--cab fares are no problem. Within minutes, everyone is packed in mud-splattered yellow vehicles and wending homewards...
...Brattle Cab Company taxi burst into flames last night at 8 p.m. on Mass Ave. directly behind Straus Hall, filling the Square with black smoke...
...says. "There are Soviets believe in communism very sincerely. have here," he observes, adding that most Soviets believe in communism very sincerely. As proof, he cites the anecdote about a Soviet child who tries to cross a busy Moscow street in the wrong place. A truck driver grinds his cab to a halt in the middle of the road, and chastises the child for blocking the progress of communism...
Within the U.S., fares are also going up. Last week the CAB approved a 2% fare increase, following a 1% increase only a month earlier. The higher prices are intended to reduce the huge losses suffered last year by most of the nation's major airlines (TWA alone lost $86.3 million and Eastern $49.7 million). As a result, the basic New York-Chicago economy fare will rise $2, to $76, by April. Unfortunately, the increases leave the domestic fare structure fully as complicated by discount and promotional rates as the international picture. To save 30% on domestic flights...
When Cosmo sets off for the hit, he has a blowout on the Hollywood Freeway. He phones a Yellow Cab to take him the rest of the way. Then, while waiting for transportation to arrive, he calls up the Crazy Horse to see how the show is going. He asks the bartender what number is on. The bartender does not know. "Is it the 'April in Paris' number?" Cosmo demands. The bartender still professes ignorance. Cosmo starts barking out hints: "Is Mr. Sophistication singing I Can't Give You Anything But Love? Look on the back wall...