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...extracurricular scheme. Accustomed to chauffeuring her kids to and from their West Side Manhattan apartment, she has applied to become a licensed cabbie as soon as her ninth child is born in December. Says Patsy: "I'm looking forward to the fun part of driving a taxi-bawling out the customers...
...American life would fail to perform one of the basic and simple duties of every citizen with respect to the discovery or possession of stolen property or secret Government documents. That duty, I had thought-perhaps naively -was to report forthwith to public officers. This duty rests on taxi drivers, Justices and the New York Times...
Died. J.I. Rodale, 72, organic-food advocate and magazine publisher; of a heart attack suffered while taping the Dick Cavett Show; in Manhattan. "I'm going to live to be 100 unless I'm run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver," quipped Rodale, a millionaire who followed his own advice: avoid refined white sugar and eat only pure foods. It was by disseminating that counsel in such Rodale Press magazines as Prevention (circ. 1,025,000) and Organic Gardening and Farming (circ. 725,800) that the energetic popularizer of sunflower seeds became a hero of the natural...
...reforms, reducing membership to 1,200,000. Hoping to save their own skins, friends secretly denounced one another before the commission inquiring into activities under Dubč that are now considered questionable. Loss of party cards has meant loss of livelihood as well. Teachers have had to become taxi drivers; diplomats, hotel clerks; and intellectuals, gas-station attendants. Even the still popular Dubč is now a minor bureaucrat in the Slovak Ministry of Forests...
...arrived a bit early?about three hours early. A makeup girl laboriously tried to "play down" what she called a "big nose" and then sent me backstage to stew. Anxiety clawed at my chest. "I had hoped that a taxi would knock me down on my way to the studio," I said to Dick Cavett. He replied laconically, "That's New York; you never can get a taxi when you want one." Running a talk show, Cavett and his staff had warned, was not as easy as it appeared. But I was prepared to try, and had memorized...