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...some of whom are lords of a sizable part of creation during business hours, seemed as flustered and helpless as unshelled hermit crabs. Local 32-6 of A.F.L.'s Building Service Employes was on strike. Elevators stopped running, coal furnaces went out, and matrons were forced to open taxi doors themselves...
While under severe nervous strain-in a taxi waiting for a light to turn green, in a restaurant waiting for a tardy guest-"use the waiting time to advantage . . . Let the jaw drop down until it feels about to crack. This relaxes the facial muscles . . . Bring the finger tips together at the base of the skull and lift hard, pulling the head up and stretching the neck muscles . . . Wiggle the toes inside the shoes. Limbering the big toe can do much towards improving the general feeling of well-being . . . Flabby buttocks have much the same effect on the body...
Through the civic generosity of local merchants, Managua (pop. 100,000) got its first traffic lights last month. Now that it has nine on the main streets, the capital's 207 taxi drivers have pretty well got the hang of the gadgets, and pedestrians have stopped bellowing from the sidewalks the meaning of red, green and amber. Most Managua citizens agree that the lights are modern and efficient, and that they really have not slowed traffic down very much. One unexpected hitch did develop: oxcarts, starting from scratch on a green light, could just barely cross the street before...
Especially Taxi Drivers. Next on Radford's priority list come good manners: "Today's geography and science may become useless tomorrow but good manners are always an asset...
London Correspondent Dozier was also wondering what his opening gambit should be, and on the way to Russell Square in a taxi had settled on a pseudo-literary observation. "When I walked in," Dozier cabled us, "Eliot stood up, gave me his hand, and then threw me completely off my intellectual rails by asking: 'Does your family come from St. Louis?' I told him it didn't, but his remark got things down to the very human level. We talked for three hours and ten minutes-the longest interview Eliot has ever given a journalist...