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Qualifications. In Barrie, Ont., while checking an illegally parked taxi, police discovered that Driver Ross Grant had no operator's license, no municipal taxi license, and received a pension from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...guests began arriving in Kobeyat for the wedding of a local maiden and her Syrian fiancé. The bridegroom's two brothers-a Maronite monk named Father Genadrios Mourani. 32, and Seminarian Jean Mourani. 23-arrived in nearby Tripoli with their cousin. Father Georges Mourani. 34. Hiring a taxi, the three Syrians set out in the rainswept dusk for Kobeyat, passing through a spectral countryside of deserted, barren hills. As they rounded a curve on the approach to the village, the night crackled with gunfire. Father Genadrios was killed in the first fusillade. The cabby stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Revenge Is No Defense | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Harvard Flying Club hopes to begin immediately the "air taxi service" advertised in the CRIMSON earlier this week, according to James M. Revie, president of the organization...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Flying Club Offers Charter Trips At Cost to Any Points in Area | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

...exaggerated fear of radiation, he insists. "We're going to have to live with it a long time-more and more as time goes on. It should not be invested with such an aura of mystery. You're just as dead if you get hit by a taxi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blue Flash at DP Site | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...after four centuries, they are coming out of the jungle, cutting their matted hair, switching from stone to metal implements. Koi is their leader in this respect. "Stone is no good," he declared last week. "Xetá life is no good; outside is better." Koi wants to be a taxi driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Living Stone Age | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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