Word: taxi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...allay. (In the past decade, helicopter lines have carried 3,130,000 passengers with only two fatal crashes.) Every time a helicopter passenger pays $8 for a ride, taxpayers must chip in another $8 to enable him to make the trip. Still, as helicopter technology has advanced, the taxi lines have managed to cut per-seat costs from $3.68 per mile...
Miles of Traffic. The sudden removal of Government subsidy will probably not ground the taxi lines, but it will make the industry's takeoff somewhat more difficult. There is no doubt, however, that the helicopter is here to stay. As jets force airports farther from big cities, leaving miles of increasingly congested traffic in between, necessity is likely to keep helicopters flying...
...often the roof covers only a single room. More than three-fourths of Tokyo's private rental units are one-room warrens, and both the financial and the human costs are fearful. Almost once a week a Tokyo infant smothers to death in an overcrowded communal bed. A taxi driver recently nabbed by police for making love to his wife in the public plaza of the Imperial Palace was given a sympathetic release when he pleaded that he simply could not perform his husbandly duties at home-home being a 9-ft. by 9-ft. room inhabited...
...rainy afternoon, South Viet Nam's top three monks made separate arrivals at Saigon Buddhist headquarters-Thich Tri Quang in a blue Renault taxi, Thich Tarn Chan in a Mercedes, Thich Tinh Khiet in a Peugeot 404. In a dressing room they changed from street habits to their yellow robes. Then, amid clashing gongs and curling incense, the trio stood before a neon-lighted Buddha, chanting: "We pledge to fulfill our religious duties, to sacrifice ourselves for the defense of religion, to pray for the people and the nation to live in peace...
Died. Richard Joshua Reynolds, 58, playboy heir to a king-size slice of his father's tobacco empire (Camel, Winston, Salem), who scorned the family trade to become a taxi driver, deck hand, aviator, ship owner, horse breeder and sometime Democratic politician, managing meanwhile to run through $10 million of his $25 million inheritance settling three marriages; of chronic pulmonary emphysema; in Lucerne, Switzerland, 36 hours before his fourth wife gave birth to a daughter...