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Joey borrowed $500 from Chris the Cab Driver one dark snowy night in New York. He and the girl came to Boston, but she left him when the money was gone. Joey started to drift West- Springfield, Buffalo, Indianapolis- wherever there was pool action...

Author: By Lester Conklin, | Title: Pool Hustler on the Road Again | 6/4/1971 | See Source »

...action will coincide with stricter enforcement by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) of a clause it has tended to ignore. CAB Investigator Edward E. Thomas said yesterday that a regulation requiring that a university officer sign a charterer's statement of supporting information would be enforced "more and more...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Charterers Face Crackdown Here | 6/2/1971 | See Source »

Thomas also said that this decision was an "indirect" result of a recent letter to the CAB from Michael L. Ryan '72. Ryan is the new President of Harvard Student Agencies...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Charterers Face Crackdown Here | 6/2/1971 | See Source »

...black kids find they can't get a piece of the pie, they're going to get a piece of the action. That means trouble." As Americans learned during the riots of the 1960s, however, ghetto violence explodes by a wholly unpredictable chemistry. The arrest of a cab driver was enough to trigger the 1967 riot in Newark. In New York last week, four policemen were gunned down-two of them fatally shot in the back, the other two critically wounded by submachine-gun fire into their patrol car. It is assumed that the shootings were racially motivated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Cities: Forecast for Summer | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...track owners and horse breeders. Nevertheless, O.T.B. has so far proved a winner with the group that counts most: the bettors. At Grand Central Station last week, one of nine off-track betting sites in the city, the crush of eager bettors-executives with briefcases, housewives toting shopping bags, cab drivers studying tip sheets, secretaries in hot pants-made it rush hour all day long. Although $2 bets account for 92% of the action, O.T.B. is now raking in an average daily handle of $235,000 and should begin to break even in three weeks-a full two months ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Game in Town | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

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