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...failed to prosecute some big tax-delinquency cases, including a $2,400,000 one against one of his friends, a North Carolina taxi-fleet operator...
...They registered at the Endicott Hotel and counted out $1,000 apiece. After stuffing the rest of the money in a paper bag, they went to Grand Central Terminal, and pushed it into a rented locker. Then, moving from one swank Fifth Avenue shop to another, and handing startled taxi drivers $5 to $10 tips in the process, they engaged in a surrealistic shopping spree...
Paris police told taxi drivers that they must all take physical exams, and the cabbies didn't like it. Last week the cabbies threatened revenge. They would drive only at legal speeds, give the crossing pedestrian a sporting chance, acknowledge the other motorists' right of way, and strictly obey every traffic law. The result, they vowed, would be the worst traffic jam Paris has ever seen...
...France, strikes threatened 1) the mind-teachers refused to grade exam papers until they got a pay raise; 2) the feet-Paris taxi drivers, mostly as old and decrepit as their vehicles, struck when threatened with physical examinations that would ground the wheeziest and most shortsighted; and 3) the stomach-butchers refused to sell meat until the government raised price ceilings. One butcher killed himself, leaving the explanation: "I cannot accustom myself to the satanic clientele in this district...
Over the last eleven years. Defense's Bob Lovett has held down three important top policy-making jobs, just a short taxi ride across Washington from Capitol Hill. But Lovett, a tall, slender man with the poise and features of a balding Caesar, has nimbly sidestepped the publicity that might have made his name known even to Bill Langer. In a time of crisis, he is well content to work in the shadow of greater names...