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...late 'sixties exploded the "New Frontier" assumption that personal career advancement is complementary to the welfare of all the people, sending many students stumbling across class lines as cab-drivers, carpenters, farmers, factory-workers, and bums. The spiritual nub of their "downward mobility" was a thirst to encounter the world differently from the way a newly-minted upper middle class professional does--to encounter it with reverence, in dialogue, and with some of that delight, that "excellency of childhood" (Reinhold Niebuhr) without which all the wellsprings of human endeavor run dry. They felt that, if permanently cast as "professionals...
...Kennedy and Officer Tippit is not necessarily to believe that no one put him up to it. Yet no evidence of a plot has ever been brought forward. The hit man in such a scheme does not wander around, as Oswald did -walking, catching a bus, switching to a cab, picking up a revolver at his rooming house and walking again-with not enough money to travel far from the scene of the crime. He does not call attention to himself ahead of time by barging into the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City, demanding immediate visas...
...latest round of fighting had been sparked by the discovery of the mutilated body of a Moslem cab driver, killed in the previous week's battles. Mortars, rockets and machine guns exploded in one of the noisiest and most prolonged cannonades yet to afflict Beirut. An estimated 150 died and 450 lay wounded. As armed bands disrupted the city, Beirutis had to deal with so-called flying roadblocks that were set up and later torn down in hit-and-run fashion...
...publishing company, goes to a dinner party and makes love with his prospective boss's wife. He tantalizes the boss with his own wife (but does not yield her) and concludes with a feat of manhood, screwing his own wife in the back seat of a cab. The narrator gets the job, while the boss finds consolation only in breaking wind at his departing guests...
...CAB would be forbidden to approve any deal among airlines that would reduce competition, such as the agreements between lines to cut back schedules jointly...