Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lifeboat. Chief difficulty: the survivors, whether on rafts or swimming, have a hard time getting to the lifeboat, particularly in a stiff wind. Last week the Air Force announced a solution for this problem: a radio-controlled lifeboat that picks up survivors as if it were a seagoing taxi...
...damn near starve to get by. Now, if you come to my place, we'll give you free room, board, and tuition, a good job in the summer and enough spending money so you'll never have to take your girl home in the subway or even a taxi. You'll have your own car. Engineering? Well, no, we haven't any engineering course, but our mechanical drawing and commercial art is practically the same thing...
With such thumbnail plot summaries, a 56-year-old disc jockey named Reuben Bradford is selling opera to Texans. On Dallas' station WFAA, his Opera Once Over Lightly is beamed directly at "the taxi-driver who likes Figaro, but doesn't know...
...boarding home, he threw tantrums and complained that he wanted a bicycle like other kids. At twelve, he quit school; when he was hauled before a judge he sullenly asked to be sent to the reformatory. A married sister got him out; he responded by robbing a Joplin taxi driver...
Meanwhile, most O.C.I. officials in Teheran had become disgusted with corruption and inefficiency in the Iranian government. In recent weeks a traveler who asked a Teheran taxi driver to take him to the Seven-Year-Plan Building was likely to meet the question, "You mean the Seven-Hundred-Year Plan?" O.C.I., recognizing that its experts were costing the hard-pressed Iranian government money that it could ill afford to spend, two months ago offered to end the contract. Last week the government accepted the offer...