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...entertainment." When newsmen asked if the subject of women ever came up during their discussions with Race Horse, Pilcher said, "Not women, definitely not women. Women were never mentioned." The mayor gasped, "Gosh, no." Smitherman said he had given Race Horse $7-$3 for the membership, $2 for the cab, $2 for a tip-and that Edwards had picked Pilcher's pocket of the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Mr. Smitherman Goes to Washington | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...some speculation that the Civil Aeronautics Board may order fare cuts (it regards a 101% return as "fair and reasonable"), but the airlines argue that they need several years of high earnings to pay for the $2.5 billion worth of new jets now on order. For the moment, the CAB seems inclined to agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Flying Cash Registers | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...taxi driver's protests were vehement and mostly unprintable. "The buses have taken away the best half of the best cab stand in Cambridge," said Sherman Van Schaick. "We lost room for eight cabs, and the replacement stands that Rudolph has given us are not worth anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Policemen, Bus Drivers Unhappy About Change in Bus Regulations | 3/23/1965 | See Source »

...wheel of a taxi, making $70 a week. "I simply fell apart because of my drinking," he said, explaining that he had bounced around from job to job until now he has joined Alcoholics Anonymous and is trying to make a new start. He drives for the Flash Cab Co. twelve hours a day, visits his wife and four children in a Chicago suburb only on weekends while he rehabilitates himself. "I'd like to get back into the mainstream of life," he said. "But not politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 19, 1965 | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...confirmed hotel reservation has long since gone to someone else. If they finally get into one of the overbooked establishments, they have to make dinner reservations a day in advance just to eat when they want in their own hotel. They pay stiff prices for almost everything, and the cab drivers hurt their feelings by speaking English when they try out their high school Spanish. But this is Puerto Rico, and this year the tourists, the mainlanders, statesiders, continentals, or just plain gringos are flying down as never before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puerto Rico: Caribbean Vegas | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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