Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris police told taxi drivers that they must all take physical exams, and the cabbies didn't like it. Last week the cabbies threatened revenge. They would drive only at legal speeds, give the crossing pedestrian a sporting chance, acknowledge the other motorists' right of way, and strictly obey every traffic law. The result, they vowed, would be the worst traffic jam Paris has ever seen...
...France, strikes threatened 1) the mind-teachers refused to grade exam papers until they got a pay raise; 2) the feet-Paris taxi drivers, mostly as old and decrepit as their vehicles, struck when threatened with physical examinations that would ground the wheeziest and most shortsighted; and 3) the stomach-butchers refused to sell meat until the government raised price ceilings. One butcher killed himself, leaving the explanation: "I cannot accustom myself to the satanic clientele in this district...
Over the last eleven years. Defense's Bob Lovett has held down three important top policy-making jobs, just a short taxi ride across Washington from Capitol Hill. But Lovett, a tall, slender man with the poise and features of a balding Caesar, has nimbly sidestepped the publicity that might have made his name known even to Bill Langer. In a time of crisis, he is well content to work in the shadow of greater names...
...talent search that took four years. Heading the cast of characters originally created in blackface by Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden in a quartercentury of radio shows: ex-Vaudevillian Tim Moore as the posturing Kingfish; ex-Teacher Spencer Williams as Andy; Actor (Anna Lucasta) Alvin Childress as Amos, the taxi tycoon. The opening show served up the most rudimentary of plots (the Kingfish gets a draft notice by .mistake), but embellished it with slapstick situations reminiscent of the better two-reel comedies of silent movie days. The dialogue is above average; the sight gags (one of the best: the Kingfish...
...back. When the steamer returned to England, two of its 168 passengers were missing. In the cabins booked by the diplomats, ship's officers found two packed suitcases and a litter of towels and shaving gear. The pair, police later found, walked off the ship and hired a taxi; one of them asked the driver in flawless French to drive to Rennes at top speed. During the 90-minute ride, the two sat in taut silence; they gave the driver a 5,000-franc note, waited for 500 francs' change, rushed to catch the train to Paris...