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Used to transport graduate students who have classes at different schools on the same day, the service consists of chartered Checker Cab limousines and a Falcon station wagon, running every hour on the half hour, Monday through Friday...
Precarious Trail. The tour itself went off like African clockwork. Delays were commonplace. Vast crowds surged around Elizabeth and Prince Philip as they were whirled through Addis in the Emperor's Rolls-Royce, which broke down only once. At one point they transferred to the silken cab of a green and scarlet imperial coach pulled by a team of six Lippizaner horses. They dined on lamb, watt (Ethiopia's excellent meat and vegetable stew), tedj-a honey-based mead-and Taitinger champagne. The imperial touch was also present when Elizabeth journeyed over the dusty plain to Asmara, where...
...like any free-for-all-but by the time this one was over, three men were dead. One was a passing truck driver, who got his skull fractured by an ice-cored snowball. Another truck driver, also under barrage, got so incensed that he grabbed a pistol from his cab and shot "I don't know where"-it was, it turned out, into the head of an 18-year-old freshman. And the third victim, a 58-year-old packer, died of a heart attack minutes after (and, maintains his widow, because of) running the snowball gauntlet on West...
...Students--who offered in a second letter to provide a non profit charter service-cited CAB rules requiring charter operators to itemize their anticipated expenses for prospective passengers and to issue a detailed financial report after each flight...
Harold Rosenwald '27, general counsel for the HSA, conceded last night that some of the students' points were "reasonably legitimate." He said however, that the HSA had always "assumed" that the CAB had no jurisdiction over foreign airlines, which provide all the HSA's planes for transatlantic flights...