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...autumn dusk before the city closes down for the night. Bus service stops at 7 p.m. because arsonists of the I.R.A. have been setting buses afire to lure security forces into ambush. After 10 p.m., all main roads leading to I.R.A. strongholds are closed to private cars, and no taxi will go near them. One who goes in on foot will be searched by patrolling British troops, or stopped half a dozen times in half a mile by I.R.A. women vigilantes, or even get caught in a sudden crossfire. Every night in the slums off Falls Road, all the walls...
...York City voice that, according to Norman Mailer, "could boil the fat off a taxi driver's neck," Bella complains that "the U.S. House of Representatives has the distinction of being the most unrepresentative body...
...Chicago's Midway Airport by taxi. Late in the afternoon, two pilots for the Husky Oil Co., of Cody, Wyo., suggest that I ask their boss, Chairman of the Board Glenn Nielson, for a lift to Cody. Nielson is slightly taken aback but finally agrees, and we have tea and cookies aboard his jet Sabreliner on the way to Cody. Nielson immediately sends me off to a rodeo. A nice...
...clean shot, take it." Two other FBI agents approached Obergfell on the runway and tried to persuade him to give himself up. A priest offered to have the Catholic Church buy him a ticket to Italy. Obergfell grew tense, still clutching the girl and waiting for the 707 to taxi to where he stood. "Get that goddamned plane out here!" he shouted...
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson insisted that the press should not have printed the papers before checking with Government officials. There is a duty to do so, wrote Acheson on the Times Op-Ed page, and quoting Chief Justice Warren Burger, he noted that "this duty rests on taxi drivers, Justices and the New York Times." Citing the British system as a good example, Acheson advocated a "severe Official Secrets Act" and a "self-governing body for the press" to stimulate more "self-restraint." He quoted Samuel Johnson's advice to Boswell not "to think foolishly...