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...American Embassy in Havana is a good walk from the center of town, down a long hill bordered by paint-peeling houses. Nine years ago, before Fidel Castro's sudden revolution, American tourists used to take a taxi up the hill into Cuba's gleaming capital. Today, there is almost no traffic on that road. The real center of power is elsewhere. The slit-windowed, modern United States Embassy on the seafront no longer dictates the politics and the economics of this island. The scrupulously neutral Swiss now handle American interests in Cuba, and that means handling the unceasing trickle...
...taxi driver knows the latest back stage gossip from the opera house. The maid hums Schubert lieder while brewing coffee. The shopkeeper can debate the baton technique of leading conductors. Throughout Austria, everybody seems to be caught up in music, whether as a cultural pursuit, political issue, spectator sport, historical tradition or simple daily pleasure. Other countries may name their streets after composers, but Austria must be the only place where a crack train is called the Mozart Express, and where the national airline has planes called Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner. Even affairs of state become insignificant next...
...foot-11, 175 pound speedster spent the early part of the season in the Army and has been working with the Patriots' taxi squad since rejoining the club several weeks...
Even for Saigon, a city that has seen all manner of demonstrations, it was an unusual protest. Into Workers Union Headquarters last week marched 200 perfumed professionals, representatives of the 50,000 bar girls and taxi dancers who make their living by catering to the loneliness of the American G.I. They were distressed by the threat of the reform-minded government of Nguyen Van Thieu to close down saigon's 160 cabarets and 47 dance halls. Unless their livelihoods were protected, they said, they would take to the streets like the Buddhists in opposition to the government...
...contacted by the Jets who offered to let him play for the Waterbury Orbits for a few weeks. The Jets promised to consider signing him at the end of this trial period. Dockery took the offer and after four weeks with the Orbits, the Jets signed him for the taxi squad...