Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia's contributions to its home town, none is more impressive than the School of General Studies, where anyone from taxi driver to tycoon can get a complete liberal-arts education pretty much on his own schedule. Since 1947 some 1,500 students have won their B.A.s there, and of these, 68% have gone on to graduate work. With that school, 200-year-old Columbia has rounded out the promise that President Barnard made nearly a century ago-that "no seeker after knowledge shall fail to find here what he requires, and . . . that no sincere and earnest seeker after...
AIRLINES are five times safer (per mile of travel) than the family car or taxi, reported Planes, trade journal of the Aircraft Industries Association. In 1953, the scheduled airlines carried almost 31 million passengers more than 18 billion miles, the best safety record in history with a rate of .48 per 100 million passenger-miles. The death rate for cars and taxis: approximately 2.8 per 100 million passenger-miles...
George was a spy. Whenever he played tennis, a Japanese policeman stood outside the court watching until he left, jumped on his bicycle and pedaled furiously for the nearest police box to report direction of his car or taxi. George's chief mission was to spy on U.S. and Japanese forces. George cultivated a wide acquaintance among Tokyo's swarming streetwalkers, who have a wide acquaintance among G.I.s. His favorite haunt was The Forbidden City, a Chinese restaurant popular with servicemen. He was, U.S. Intelligence agents well knew, a lieutenant colonel in Beria...
Briefcase barnstorming shows every sign of growing still more. What was once the "president's plane" has become a management taxi for practically everybody. And after a company buys one plane, perhaps a Piper Tri-Pacer, it often moves up to a larger Beech Twin-Bonanza. The second just about sells itself as corporations discover that they need different planes for different uses...
...Though many have applied, only one man has so far been accepted as a postulant: Joaquín, a 38-year-old taxi driver from Granada. But Brother Hilarion is sure that he and Bernardo have started something that will spread through Spain, and perhaps farther...