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...love you ... I want you to have my bicycle. . . ." Then he killed himself by putting the muzzle of his .22 caliber rifle to his ear and pulling the trigger. ¶ In Denton, Texas, a 14-year-old Palo Pinto County farm girl named Eva Lee Knoop got into a taxicab, showed the driver a .22 revolver, ordered, "Get out of Texas." He headed for Oklahoma. Hours later, gun still in hand, she told him to stop, get out and buy her some candy. He called the cops, then drove her on into a police ambush at Madill, Okla. Eva surrendered...
...Taxicab Sense. Despite Juan Perón's demagogic bread-&-circuses campaign, Candidate Tamborini might have a chance -in the,unlikely event that the elections were free. The average Argentine was just mad enough at the rocketing cost of living and the gnawing sense of general unrest to give Tamborini...
Revolution really came to England. Its symbol was a new taxicab-the sleek, shiny prototype of 3,000 which will eventually take the streets of London beside the vanishing hacks of the past (see cut). Age, the blitz and the robombs have halved the peacetime ranks (8,000) of the veteran models. Though pernickety and anachronistic, their comfortably high doors and maneuverable wheelbases were admirably suited to their purpose. Wheezing their way through two World Wars, they have been as much a part of London as St. Paul's or the oystermen of Billingsgate. With their passing London will...
...home, the news came to people in the hot soft light of the afternoon, in taxicabs, along the streets, in offices and bars and factories. In a Cleveland barbershop, 60-year-old Sam Katz was giving a customer a shave when the radio stabbed out the news. Sam Katz walked over to the water cooler, took a long, slow drink, sat down and stared into space for nearly ten minutes. Finally he got up and painted a sign on his window: "Roosevelt Is Dead." Then he finished the shave. In an Omaha poolhall, men racked up their cues without finishing...
Some busses were commandeered for the refugees, and others were packed with soldiers and sent off to the front, in imitation of Gallieni's great taxicab army which helped to save Paris in 1914. Streetcars stopped running and subway service was heavily reduced. Food cards were stretched for an extra week and the potato ration...