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...Beechcraft Bonanza air taxi en route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to East Hampton, L.I., crashed as it was attempting to land after a door came open on take-off (four dead−including Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the State Department chief of protocol). As a possible reason for the crash, CAB suggested that the roar of air rushing past the open door space may have panicked one of the three women passengers into interfering with the controls or the pilot...
...caviar canapes, truffled ham laced with port, cutlets in aspic and glazed duckling, Belgian raspberries and Italian peaches-eased down with whisky and lager. Between mouthfuls, Nubar explained: "I do this to keep up my spirits." When judgment was reserved, the natty trencherman rolled away in the London taxi rebuilt to his taste by Rolls-Royce...
...Aviv airport, Soblen hailed a taxi, went to the seaside Savoy Hotel, showed the passport, got a room, and began making phone calls to cousins and childhood friends from his birthplace in Lithuania. When he tried one number-41614-he was told that it had been disconnected, and he shouted angrily at the hotel operator: "It's impossible! That's one number I must get!" Throughout the next day, he strolled the nearby streets, conferred with an attorney friend, and read the newspapers. Then, next morning, alerted by newspaper stories, three Israeli policemen knocked on his door...
...unskilled laborers, garbage men, bus conductors and hospital orderlies. They are jammed in ramshackle Harlems like London's Notting Hill and Birmingham's Balsall Heath, and are frequently victimized by their own countrymen who arrived earlier. Pakistan's High Commissioner in Britain complained recently that London taxi drivers were "kidnaping" Pakistani newcomers at the airport and selling them into "slavery" to other established Pakistanis who paid the taxi fares...
...administration presses court cases against officials who acquire "unexplained wealth." More important. Macapagal has raised the salaries of government workers and the armed forces. With his usual public-relations gift, he drives a Chevrolet and issues palace breakfast invitations to honest taxi drivers who return lost wallets...