Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minicab owners get around this situation by 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...
...hope that Kenya's second biggest African party, the K.A.D.U., may yet be persuaded to participate in the new Kenya government. But the realistic prospect is that no African faction will dare oppose Kenyatta's wishes for long. The Africans who visited him last week insist that, contrary to earlier reports, Jomo is neither ill, feeble nor alcoholic. Recently, he produced a child by his young third wife, who shares his Lodwar cabin. Said Tom Mboya: "I can assure people who consider that his age has impaired him mentally and physically that they are quite wrong...
...Stan Musial went out of his way to insist that the decline in batting averages is not due to a decline in the skill of the players, the old shibboleth of many sportswriters. "In the '40s. when I came up, I played against the great players of the '30s. and I heard them talk about the great ones of the '20s. Now it's the '60s, and some of the kids I'm playing with and against will be the superstars of the '70s. You get a long perspective, and the players...
...automakers that the nation was sick of big cars and wanted small, unadorned cars with built-in economy; now Detroit has discovered that Americans want economy all right-but are willing to pay any price to get it. Nearly 30% of the regular Falcon's customers, for example, insist on a 100-h.p. engine instead of the standard 85-h.p.; 50% want white sidewalls, 68% want the "trim kit"-extra chrome on the outside, pleated nylon on the inside...
...Maybe the month after that it will be $100. We have to take what the market will bring." Moran sniffs at dealers who want a factory-fixed fair-price arrangement: "A lot of dealers are sitting around waiting to be legislated into making a living." Poor Service. Many dealers insist that customers make a mistake by shopping around in search of a rock-bottom price; they say that if the customer does not buy from his local dealer, he cannot expect to get good service from him later...