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Impressed, the visitor told Omaha Mayor Eugene Leahy about his upbeat arrival by cab. As a result, all six of the area's taxi companies have agreed to send their drivers to briefings and guided tours of the 54-mile waterway project. "They can be the greatest goodwill, or bad-will, ambassadors," explains the mayor. It remains to be demonstrated whether the indoctrinations will succeed in altering the seemingly irrepressible urge of a taxi driver to knock rather than boost...
...agent and the General then went back toward Gold Street in a taxi, followed in a gray Dodge station wagon by a third Chinese, Guan Chow-tok, bringing the heroin. But Guan, owner of the sportswear shop, doubled back and dropped the heroin in a vacant lot, arriving emptyhanded. He seemed worried about police. The agent and Guan argued in the street in front of Beekman Hospital for several minutes, and finally the hesitant Chinese agreed to make the deal. The four men piled into the green Cadillac and followed the gray Dodge station wagon to a dark, deserted street...
...Protestant area, says Paddy Devlin, an M.P. for the Falls Road area in Belfast, is led by a "mad, dangerous man who uses a knife on many of his victims." The killers operate at night, mostly on weekends, often prowling in stolen cars or listening in on taxi radios, and apparently picking their victims by chance...
APRIL 7. New York City. Got a limosine for $11 an hour (Nixon was in one today). I always carried my gun outside my hotel. I really felt good being stare at by the poor people. Took a taxi to the Waldorf Astoria and never got looked at by anyone...
...even remember what he looked like," said Sir Alee Guinness, who is playing the Führer in a movie called Hitler: The Last Ten Days. "When we photographed some tests in Hyde Park, with me all made up and in uniform, not a soul turned around. But the taxi drivers know. I had one who kept looking at me. When I got out, he went round the block and came back again. He stopped alongside me and asked, 'You are an actor, aren't you?' I reassured him and he went...