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...because there is much here that is morally acute. As in much of his other work (notably the scripts of Taxi Driver and Old Boyfriends), Schrader simply refuses to face the grim, climactic consequences of his essentially tragic vision. He manages to contract conjunctivitis just when he needs to be most clear-eyed. -Richard Schickel
...taxi drivers, who say their gross earnings have decreased 10 per cent since Yellow Cab owner Arthur Goldberg forced them to begin paying for their own gas a week ago, will meet with the Cambridge City Council in a special hearing Monday evening, Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 announced last night...
Asked why Yellow Cab didn't simply reimburse cabbies for all money spent for gas instead of limiting them to 10 per cent of the fares collected, Goldberg said he was afraid drivers would waste gas "taking their wives and girlfriends to parties" or idling their engines at taxi stands...
...aware that 99 per cent of the 60,000 Iranian students in the U.S. are the children of plumbers, mechanics, taxi drivers, masons, gardeners? They are not here on scholarship but on their fathers' income. If it is true that the Shah had squeezed the wealth out of the Iranian people for the last 37 years, how could these lower class people be so prosperous as to afford to send their children to study abroad, even visiting them every now and then and returning home with products from U.S. department stores? Does Rev. Kimball know that every Iranian student...
...been among politicians, and I know what they're talking about. I can do as good a job as any of them," Ruma, owner of a taxi company, says...