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...Dally's lover is a healthy clod, her taxi-driver husband (Ralph Meeker) is a wounded, raging animal who empties bottles and smashes chairs- because it one accepts Playwright Hanley's shaky psychologizing, he let his three-year-old son drown years before. Mrs. Dally tries to put a think-tank in this poor tiger but he is properly mystified by a wifely oracle who is as daft as she is Delphic: "I think a lot of people could be great people...
...wheel does not jabber, there is no traffic to sit through, tips are often forbidden and the view is exhilarating. This is a taxi? In many parts of the U.S., it is−an air taxi, the fastest-growing segment of U.S. aviation. Air taxis link the 600 cities served by scheduled airlines with more than 6,000 communities that are not, carry businessmen, government officials and celebrities where they need to go in a hurry, and perform hundreds of functions from serving as ambulances to charting forest fires. In the past ten years, while 13 major airlines have shrunk...
Specializing in Newsmen. There are almost as many jobs for air taxis as there are planes. During the Florida season, Chalk's Flying Service of Miami ferries as many as 5,000 vacationers a month to the Bahamas, often runs 18 flights a day. Chicago's Executive Airlines specializes in flying newsmen to the scene of riots and disasters, also frequently carries such luminaries as Bob Hope, Barry Goldwater and Jackie Kennedy. Every weekday a Cessna 172 floatplane from Lake Union Air Service whisks Chip Prentice, 7, between his island summer home on Puget Sound and school...
Most flights are quite expensive−largely because taxi outfits have neither federal subsidies nor fare regulation. Taximen usually charge 250 a mile or $35 an hour for the hire of single-engine planes, 400 to 700 a mile or $75 to $120 per hour of flying time for twin-engine models. For busy men, the time saved makes the cost worthwhile. Fully one-fifth of the passengers on Jacksonville's Gateway Aviation are lawyers, who for $85 each can zip 170 miles to Tallahassee, the state capital, and back in 2 hr. 10 min. v. an eight-hour...
Feeding on Customers. Helicopters, costly to buy and operate, constitute only a tiny fraction of the nation's 9,000-plane taxi fleet. Taxi companies range from one-man, one-plane outfits to Detroit's 28-plane Tag Airlines, which has 100 employees and takes in $1,000,000 a year. Typical of the type is nine-plane Pilgrim Airlines, which has tripled its business in five years (to 15,000 passengers a year) by offering six scheduled flights a day from New London, Conn., to New York's Kennedy Airport. The trip costs $14.50 and takes...