Word: taxicab
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...pursuing stories for the magazine, correspondents had some offbeat adventures. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan, for instance, was in Peking to cover a reception given by the Chinese for visiting Ethiopian dignitaries last February. Rowan was jogging early one morning when a bearded man leaned out of a taxicab and frantically ordered him to stop. The man was a French television cameraman who had been assigned to record the first signs of the American presence in Peking but was having trouble locating Americans. "Finally, I saw a foreigner running in the freezing cold wearing a blue sweatsuit with...
...than 500 reporters and TV technicians from 30 nations had assembled in Israel. Another 400 managed to get into Egypt. Most of them followed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's land route from Benghazi in Libya, arriving in Cairo bone-weary and -dry after an 800-mile drive by taxicab across the desert (fare: $400). Damascus and Amman played reluctant hosts to smaller press contingents...
...space of five days recently, New Yorkers came to the rescue in three different assault cases, capturing and holding suspects until the police arrived. In one instance, nearly 100 outraged citizens surrounded the taxicab in which three muggers were trying to escape, pressing in so close that the assailants locked themselves in for fear of their lives. In another, three men chased two muggers down back streets, overtook them and wrestled them into submission. In the most dramatic-and questionable-"citizen's arrest," a dozen men pummeled into unconsciousness a man suspected of and later charged with molesting...
...kind of mission should be a loner vis-a-vis all sorts of authority. The church-and Pearson-are probably the only yokes he has willingly borne since he left home. He grew up in Salt Lake City, the son of a postal worker; his mother once drove a taxicab to subsidize young Jack's missionary travels for the church. At the age of twelve he was a newspaper employee, reporting on Boy Scout affairs, and in high school he was student-body president. Once he tried to do an expose on the remains of Mormon polygamy; when church...
...only thing dumber than a New York City taxicab driver is someone who would print any remark that a New York City cab driver makes on any subject other than how best to insult or vilify his customers. Remarks by cab drivers concerning the mayor are out of place in a national magazine. New York cab drivers are a burden that can be borne only by New Yorkers. No other city would put up with these morons...