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...fact that the telephones were working. No doubt you are aware that telephones are powered by electricity-and Mother Bell was prepared. Similar efforts were made successfully by the radio stations. Other public utilities were found sadly wanting, including the bus system and the fraternity of New York taxi drivers, who were either unwilling to take fares or overcharged them; they deserve public contempt...
City for $400, in New York for $365 The growing cost of such miscellaneous items as cabs, phones and tips also empties the businessman's pockets. Taxi fares have risen 12% in Helsinki over the past year, about 8% in New York. Tax hikes have raised the price of a bottle of Scotch in Helsinki by 5% to a sobering $11 a fifth. In Helsinki, one British businessman complained to the Financial Times, eating out is "costing $84 a year in tips to cloakroom attendants for bowler hat and umbrella...
...candidate of unity and stability, asked only for "four years of quiet to work," and pleasantly referred to Ben-Gurion's shrill taunts as "our little rupture in Mapai." On election day, the Mapai mobilized 60,000 "volunteers" to get out the vote with bus and taxi, scheduled flights from the Red Sea to enable Tel Aviv vaca tioners to get home and cast their ballots...
...junior varsity also provides a double benefit for Munro. It gives experience to a sizeable taxi squad, which he can call upon when injuries strike as they did in last Saturday's Cornell game. Second, it provides a convenient opponent that the varsity can scrimmage during the week...
...interest in Radcliffe began when she met Helen Keller at a dinner party. They shared a taxi home and had a long argument about Shakespeare's heroines; thereafter they were close friends...