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...Several taxi cab drivers testified against the city's proposal, offered by Robert P. Moncreiff, of the Cambridge Bicentennial Corporation...
...Taxi Stands...
With South Viet Nam's territory shrinking daily, Photographers Mark Godfrey and Dirck Halstead, who have traveled to the front in Indochina by Jeep, taxi and helicopter in the past, now found the story-and the war-coming to them in Saigon. The fatalistic, enervating mood of defeat they found there contrasted sharply with the elan of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong victors in Danang, captured in an exclusive series of behind-the-lines shots in this issue by the Iranian photographer Abbas...
...York City cab drivers did not have enough troubles with traffic, potholes and other cabbies, they are now being taught "better synergistic movement of the buccal cavity." In uddah woids, to tawk propah. Last week, at a seminar with an audiologist invited by the United Taxi Owners Guild, the hackies struggled like so many Eliza Doolittles to correct elided consonants, curdled diphthongs and other "substan-dardisms" peculiar to the area. If all goes well, they may give up on diction and speak only when spoken...
Five dollars plus expenses bought a prank phone call from Martha Mitchell to the victim of your choice. ("Did you know the CIA is investigating you?" she asked one startled Montana resident.) Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem turned taxi-dancer for one $65 song; off to the side, Washington Post Watergate Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward sold phony spy disguises. In the kissing booth, Veteran Socialite Barbara Howar demonstrated her wares to Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. The occasion: the second annual Counter Gridiron dinner, held to raise money for a journalists' legal-defense fund and the hackles...