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...December 19th, 1972. Article: "Exans will Not file Complaint over Alleged Assault by Taxi Driver...
These holdings pale beside his other operations. His parent company, Kokusai Kogyo (International Enterprises), was started in Tokyo in 1947 with a fleet of dilapidated charcoal-burning buses, and now embraces 38 subsidiaries, including ski areas and bowling alleys, restaurants, taxi and bus companies, and trading houses that import everything from American cars to golf clubs. Last year the company earned $26 million on revenues of $330 million. Osano is also the biggest private shareholder in Japan Air Lines, the state-operated flag carrier, and a major investor in All Nippon Airways, the domestic carrier...
...always, Librikov manages to find amusing new ways to air his old crotchets about the waywardness of mechanical contrivances and other intrusions upon daily serenity. The standard taxi door is accurately compared to "an opening for emerging dwarfs." The plumbing in an old hotel is like a whining, stupid pet that tries to follow one out of the lavatory. For all its naughtiness, Transparent Things is also an autumnal, even philosophical work-a feat, considering the book's brevity, even for Nabokov. Apparently finished with the luxuriant digressions of Ada, he is impatient to confront the mysteries...
Evans said the cab driver called him "a cheep black bastard" and assaulted him physically at the end of a trip to Logan Airport in a taxi owned by the Ambassador Cab Company...
Passengers are required to pay the toll fare for their ride to Logan Airport but not for the taxi's return trip. Joseph Carvalho, the vice president of the Ambassador Cab Company, said yesterday...