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Escorted by half a dozen stony-faced U.S. marshals, he began walking toward the U.S. Government automobile that was waiting to take him back to his dormitory. "Hey. taxi!" a student yelled. "I wish I had a taxi to take me around campus.'' The hissing intensified, and Meredith quickened his pace. As he reached the car and faced a battery of waiting news photographers, the students broke into loud jeers. "Smile, nigger, smile!" they called. The marshals hustled him into the back seat and the car drove away, followed by two U.S. Army weapons carriers loaded with steel...
...will have 2,400,000 sq. ft. of rentable space-400,000 more than the Empire State Building, though it is only 59 stories high to the Empire State's 102. No building ever had a more accessible location; it can be reached by train, car, subway, taxi, air. Its roof will be a heliport equipped to handle 25-passenger twin-turbine helicopters; through its cellarage rumble some 400 trains daily; and in between, 63 elevators will carry some 25,000 office staffers and executives up and down...
...foreign importers so that they might buy more U.S. goods. 'T am convinced," he said softly [the Continental's engine roared as it took off toward the next traffic light], "that to generate this kind of credit in sufficient volume [a screech of brakes to avoid a swerving taxi], say on the order of a billion dollars a year [slow glide toward the light that had gone red], our great financial institutional investors such as the insurance companies, the pension funds and the savings banks must be induced to cooperate [another jackrabbit start toward the next light]." The self-possessed...
When South Korea's Strongman General Park Chung Hee seized power 15 months ago, he embarked on a harsh, puritanical crusade with the startling goal of "remaking Korean man." Park and his military junta jailed gamblers and black-market "businessmen," executed smugglers; taxi dancers were shunned as "decadent" and some 40,000 bureaucrats were slashed from the government payrolls as "too old, too inefficient, too insubordinate, or too opportunistic." Park shut down brothels and made the shapely hustlers pledge that they would lead a "decent life," and then sent them off to rehabilitation schools. But puritanism had a crippling...
Since no foreigner can hire a taxi in Albania, the government guide was a necessary companion. More helpful was a Japanese reporter, who teamed with Behr, was regularly saluted by Albanians, who took him for a Chinese. Outnumbering the man from Albtourist, the two newsmen occasionally split up and deliberately got lost to enjoy a few minutes on their own. These escapes never lasted long, thanks to the ubiquitous secret police, the Sigurimi, and other troops (onefourth of the nation's adult manpower is in uniform). Furthermore, officials cautioned the visitors that if they did not behave themselves, they...