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Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians poured into Cairo by train, bus and rattling taxi. They swarmed over the capital like locusts, swamped the hotels, took temporary shelter in the city's mosques and jammed the streets laughing, arguing and anticipating. One clear, chilly morning last week, as the first light fingered the minarets of the Mohammed Ali Mosque east of the city, they headed for Cairo's immense, open Liberation Square. They had come to celebrate a birthday: six months of Soldier Naguib's reign...
...sign," reported Conservative M. P. Beverley Baxter in Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, "when American taxi drivers do not engage a stranger in conversation. This time the canaries did not sing . . . When I asked a friend for an explanation, he answered that America is haunted by two spectres-war and peace . . . Incidentally, a New Yorker who has lived on the fringe of world affairs . . . suggested to me that Japan might be invited to take over Korea . . . 'Japanese armament shares have had a sharp rise,' he said suavely. I make no comment on his statement, but merely...
...Taxi (20th Century-Fox) is a sentimental 18-hour journey in a New York taxicab. The fanciful story tells of an Irish colleen (Constance Smith) who arrives in New York with her baby to find her husband, a no-good fellow who wooed and won her in Dublin and then disappeared. With the help of a cocky cab driver (Dan Dailey), the pretty immigrant finally tracks down her man. By then, of course, it has long been obvious that her heart belongs to the cabbie...
...Posies & Taxi-Girls. As the week went by, however, the Communists seemed undisposed to oblige. Instead they launched a series of guerrilla attacks back in the Hanoi delta, each an apparently independent operation, except that they all occurred in areas between Hanoi and the sea, the escape route for the French. But in Hanoi nobody worried. Staff officers bought their ladies posies at the flower stalls by the glassy Petit Lac, dined sumptuously at Le Manoir or the Hotel Metropole or danced with taxi-girls at the Ritz and Paramount. At night, beneath their mosquito nets, they listened...
...sliding along the bottom. As soon as it picks up speed and the ski cuts to the surface, the plane can skim over deep water for its take-off run. Once in the air, the hydro-ski can be retracted. After touching down, the pilot has to taxi fast enough for his plane to stay on the surface until he is close to beach or landing ramp...