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...claiming that the red tape applies only to cabs that "ply for hire" on the streets. They insist they answer only calls that are phoned to the main office and then radioed to a parked or cruising minicab that makes the pickup. One shrewd owner, an Irish-Indian go-getter named Michael Gotla, will allow his mini cabs to be flagged down by passengers; the driver will then hand his car phone to the customer and ask him to place his order with the dispatcher at headquarters, who will solemnly repeat it to the driver. Since the average minicab costs...
...made that Richard Nixon will have to be reckoned with as a candidate in 1964. In 1960 Nixon came within a handful of votes of carrying California, Illinois, New Jersey, Minnesota, and, with them, the election. He went down to defeat as the second best Republican vote getter in history, winning 33.3 million votes v. Ike's 35.6 million in 1956. He ran well ahead of the other G.O.P. candidates, pulled several lesser Republicans into Congress on his shirttails. Said New York Congressman William Miller, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee: "Any man who, at 47, comes within...
Oregon. Succeeding her late husband, Dick Neuberger, Democrat Maurine B. Neuberger, 52, seems sure to follow his ultra-liberal line in the Senate. A phenomenal vote getter in her own right, trim, athletic Maurine spent two terms in the state legislature, is remembered with particular affection by Oregon housewives for overturning a state ban on colored margarine. Outspoken, she once advocated a woman President because "women are nicer than men, mostly...
...Sense' Not Vote-Getter...
Arizona. Go-Getter Democrat Lee Ackerman, 39, a Missouri-born real estate millionaire, is running a well-organized middle-of-the-road campaign against Republican Incumbent Paul Fannin, 53, wealthy Phoenix gas distributor. Zesty Democrat Ackerman could win unless Nixon carries Arizona by enough of a landslide to bring his ticket along with...