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Here she plays a Brooklyn housewife named Henrietta, whose cab-driver husband Pete (Michael Sarrazin) is 32 years old and still trying to pull himself through college. One early summer's day, Pete's dispatcher down at the garage passes along a hot commodities-market tip: a trade deal with the Russians will make the price of pork bellies go through the roof come July. All Pete needs is $3,000 capital. He is without much enterprise (let it not be forgotten that Michael Sarrazin is not the star of this movie), so Henrietta goes...
Soon after that, he falls in with a cab-driver buddy (Bill Cosby) who suggests that they party it up that night at a gilt-edged fancy house. Now Poitier is basically a nice family man, but his vacation is coming up and he could use a night on the town. The friends arrange to meet at Madam Zenobia's after their wives have gone to bed. They show up, eye the girls, but are robbed, along with everyone else, when four masked men hit the place. The rest of the movie deals with the contortive lengths Cosby...
...length to avoid the delays and inconvenience of Dallas-Fort Worth. One Dallas businessman even flies from Love to Houston to take a connecting flight from there to Chicago or New York, and points out that this costs him $20 and 40 minutes, only slightly more than the cab ride to the big airport. Gordon Bing, a leading Houston executive, says in un-Texan fashion: "Bigger is just not better. I've been through there once and that was enough-all that delay and confusion between planes. Before Dallas-Fort Worth I thought the worst airport in the country...
Located halfway between cities that are Texas' traditional rivals - and an arduous $14 cab ride from either- the $700 million airport has been successful only in enraging most of the travelers who use it. They complain bitterly about the outrageous prices and protest that they are "quartered" to death - charged 25? for coffee, local phone calls and even for going from one airline to another. To add indignity to outrage, the quarters often have to be obtained from change machines that return only 95? on the dollar. The only free facilities are drinking fountains, and the water pressure...
...first thing Leonard did after he discovered he had 15 days to resolve Harvard's affirmative-action problem, he recalls three years later, was to get a cab and take a ride down to HEW's Boston Office of Civil Rights. "They were polite and they were kind," Leonard says of the HEW bureaucrats who had the responsibility for passing on the fitness of Harvard's affirmative action plans, "but they were also unyielding." Considering that it took Leonard nearly two and a half years to get an action program approved, there's little wonder that he now thinks...