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Where is Dr. Walter Linse? Since July 8, West Berliners have never ceased to wonder, and to ask. On that day, on a West Berlin street, Dr. Linse was bludgeoned outside his home, then thrown into a taxi that roared into East Berlin, where he dropped from sight (TIME, July 21). A courageous anti-Communist economist, he is Western Europe's most prominent casualty of the cold...
...public-spirited and the civic-minded. Except in Minnesota, which bars transportation of voters as a corrupt practice, there was hardly a city in which a voter could not get a lift to the polls just by picking up < his telephone. In some towns he could get a free taxi ride, and in Rochester, N.Y. an ambulance was his for the asking, even if he wasn't sick. Orange City, Iowa blew its fire siren every hour on the hour to remind the apathetic that...
Standing on the road near one end of San Salvador's Ilopango Airport one afternoon last week, Felix Lara, 24, an Indian laborer, watched a Pan American Airways Constellation taxi out for the take-off to Honduras. Just as the plane started to roll, Felix vaulted the airport fence, leaped up on the axle housing of the right main landing wheel, and flung his arms around the fat supporting strut...
Eisenhower's education about the "issues ' was particularly significant because the Democrats have fostered an attitude about Eisenhower which a Manhattan taxi driver recently summed up in the phrase (quite seriously intended): "But after all, he is just a hero." The idea (not uncommon about heroes) is that Ike's past achievements spring from some mysterious and possibly noble qualities which, however, are not connected with the job he would have to do as President, and have nothing to do with such practical matters as organizing ability, power to make decisions, skill in analyzing situations...
...campaign drew to a close this week, political reporters and poll takers stepped to their adding machines and began to strike totals. They had used polls, "scientific" and otherwise, they had interviewed politicians, taxi drivers, barbers, farmers and one another...