Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will institute a taxi service between the Business School Parking Lot and Harvard Square as soon as enough students indicate that they want it," Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, stated yesterday...
Marek Hlasko was seven years old when the Nazis invaded Poland. He was 13 when the Communists took over. He worked as a bellboy in a Warsaw hotel, put in six years as a taxi driver. Out of his experiences he wrote savagely realistic short stories that made Polish Reds wince. A tall, blond, flop-haired youngster who resembled the late Hollywood hero, James Dean, Hlasko headed a coterie that was analogous to Britain's Angry Young Men and the Beat Generation of the U.S. The difference was that Hlasko had more to be beat about-a fact that...
...year-old commercial artist in Calcutta went down to the pawnshop with his wife's jewels. Then he rented an ancient Wall camera, and on the first fine Sunday after that, he rounded up a few actor friends, piled them into a taxi, and headed upcountry to a picturesque village he knew. There and thereabouts, heedless of the fact that he had never shot a foot of film in his life, Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye) plugged away at his movie project whenever he had a day off from his paying job. After about a year...
...Books, phonograph records, taxi fares, rent, cultural entertainment, and caviar" were listed by the panelists as the major items which could be obtained cheaper in Russia than in America...
...wounded in a seven-hour gun battle in which they killed four EOKA men holed up in a barn near Famagusta; on the streets of Nicosia, a British airman walking hand-in-hand with his wife was murdered by three EOKA gunmen, who fired five shots from a passing taxi. From Royal Air Force headquarters on Cyprus had gone the order to airmen: "Keep your eyes open ... be ready to shoot at once . . . and shoot to kill...