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Stepping out of a Manhattan taxi, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Methodist Church's Council of Bishops, slammed the door shut, unwarily slammed the edge of his overcoat with it. When the cab pulled away, Oxnam was felled, his head striking the curb. Momentarily knocked unconscious, the bishop was taken to the hospital with a fractured left arm and facial cuts...
Broken Field. In Toledo, Taxi Driver Elmer Bittow was convicted of drunken driving after sheepishly admitting that he had driven his cab 26 miles south down the northbound lane of the Detroit-Toledo Expressway...
...memorial fund has been established for Eleanor R. Voss, the third-year law student who was killed last Thursday when her motor scooter collided with a taxi...
...Baghdad's airport, Aref was spotted at once by an alert army officer, and his taxi was followed by two army jeeps. Escorted to Kassem's office, he refused to quit the country again. Kassem thereupon arrested his old comrade. Moving to head off the expected explosion among Aref's army and political followers, Kassem quietly ordered an estimated dozen of Aref's army buddies taken into custody. Then, repeating his maneuver of last September, when he coupled the promise of land reform with the announcement of Aref's demotion, Kassem softened the late-night...
...jobs changed accordingly. Mere age, of course, commands no respect in a meritocracy; as IQ dips in the fifth or sixth decade of life, Young writes, "the managing director had to become an office mechanic . . . the professor an assistant in the library. There have been judges who have become taxi drivers, bishops curates, and publishers writers...