Word: taxicabs
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...victory could hardly have been more timely; American Eagle was on the verge of extinction. The bird was hatched less than three years ago in a London taxicab, shared by Texas' Carroll Shelby-best known as the designer of the Ford Cobra-and Gurney, who had dreams of driving a U.S. Formula I car ever since he began racing for Italy's Enzo Ferrari in 1958. Shelby and Gurney pooled their savings, founded a firm called All American Racers Inc., opened a factory in Santa Ana, Calif. Working with Britain's Weslake Development Co., they produced...
...told, it was not a very happy birthday for Powell, who turned 58 last week while vacationing with his House assistant, comely Corrine Huff, 25, at his Bimini retreat in the Bahamas. After nearly running down Lynn Pelham, a contract photographer for LIFE, with the old Washington taxicab he uses for buzzing around the island, Powell brandished a shotgun, snarled, "I'll kill you if you set foot on my property." With his telephoto lens, Pelham then snapped a picture of Powell stalking angrily into his house...
...high-wheeled horse-drawn calesas of old Manila, with their tasseled canopies and courtly cocheros, have given way to the ubiquitous Jeepney, a freelance taxicab that typically sports a high-gloss enamel finish in rainbow hues, Playboy-bunny mudguards, pink-fringed roof, and a sign that reads "God Is My Copilot." Crammed with such passengers as pigs, chickens, guitarists and call girls, and plagued with an absence of brakes and springs, the Jeepney needs celestial guidance...
...coincidences and split-second timing. In the 46 minutes between the assassination at 12:30 and the first report of Officer Tippit's slaying, Oswald is supposed to have dashed down six flights, slipped out of the building, walked seven blocks, boarded a bus, got off, found a taxicab, returned to his rooming house, donned a jacket, then turned up nearly a mile away and killed Tippit...
...strike, but nevertheless are getting neither regular pay nor strike benefits. Many of them looked for temporary work on the ground; TWA Captain Ford S. Blaney-who ordinarily earns $30,000 a year flying a jet-took an $18-a-day job piloting, a gas-eating Chicago taxicab. Nor was there much comfort for some 16,000 passengers of TWA who in most cases were abroad on vacation and found themselves stranded in Europe, unable to get home to the U.S. TWA helped out by offering them interest-free loans and by asking its overseas employees to open their homes...