Word: taxicabbing
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...another clinic telling a wild story. Before he became ill, said Liliane, Moumié had told her, "If anything ever happens to me you must get hold of my briefcase at any cost." After leaving Moumié in the hospital, she said she had taken the case, hired a taxicab to take her to Paris, where she delivered the briefcase to the ambassadors of Ghana and Guinea. "They were crazy with joy to get it," she said. Returning to Geneva, she said she had seen a headline that police were looking for her, in her nervousness had gulped an overdose...
Vacant. In Fall River, Mass., Frank Medeiros was fined $175 after he carefully got into a taxicab at the end of an all-night fling, drove it home himself when he discovered the driver was missing...
...police crackdown on the rightists, had worked out the details in a series of three rendezvous with Pesquet. The only hitch, according to Pesquet, had come after Mitterrand had jumped the fence into the gardens; Pesquet and his driver had been obliged to hold their fire until a cruising taxicab and a pair of lovers got out of the way. The delay, Pesquet recalled, had prompted Mitterrand to call out impatiently from his geranium bed: "All right, get going...
...auto-racing Marquis Alfonso de Portago came close to meeting death on wheels, as did the marquis in Italy's exhausting Mille Miglia road race in 1957. Under far tamer circumstances, attractive Carol Portago, 35, was crossing Manhattan's bustling Fifth Avenue last week when a taxicab, brakes gone, rolled into the intersection, plowed into Carol and two lady companions. Catapulted into the air, the marquesa came down against the cab's windshield, was indecorously given a short free ride. At week's end, with minor leg injuries, she had left a Manhattan hospital, counted herself...
Ever since 1952, when the Trib assigned him to a series on Chicago-area gambling, Smith has relentlessly followed the mob. With a fellow Trib reporter, he crouched for days in a car near Chicago's taxicab union headquarters, discovered-by the simple reportorial expedient of training binoculars on the visitors, and now and then riding a city bus past the building for a close-in gander-that it was crawling with thugs, hoods and hired guns. Their nine-part expose mercilessly pinned Joey Glimco as the leader of this unsavory band, nominated Glimco for repeated uncommunicative appearances before...