Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rainy afternoon, South Viet Nam's top three monks made separate arrivals at Saigon Buddhist headquarters-Thich Tri Quang in a blue Renault taxi, Thich Tarn Chan in a Mercedes, Thich Tinh Khiet in a Peugeot 404. In a dressing room they changed from street habits to their yellow robes. Then, amid clashing gongs and curling incense, the trio stood before a neon-lighted Buddha, chanting: "We pledge to fulfill our religious duties, to sacrifice ourselves for the defense of religion, to pray for the people and the nation to live in peace...
Died. Richard Joshua Reynolds, 58, playboy heir to a king-size slice of his father's tobacco empire (Camel, Winston, Salem), who scorned the family trade to become a taxi driver, deck hand, aviator, ship owner, horse breeder and sometime Democratic politician, managing meanwhile to run through $10 million of his $25 million inheritance settling three marriages; of chronic pulmonary emphysema; in Lucerne, Switzerland, 36 hours before his fourth wife gave birth to a daughter...
...crowd of 59,265 and sighed: "We could have sold 250,000 tickets to this game." He could have sold a million?to all the Americans, the vast Subway Alumni, to whom Notre Dame is and always has been the one and only college football team. To the Bronx taxi driver who has never seen the inside of a college but lights a candle to Our Lady every Friday night. To the San Francisco dock walloper who hasn't the foggiest notion where South Bend is but knows every player on the Irish squad. To the nuns in convents, whose...
...Form. Everyone from taxi drivers to statesmen quotes his whimsical, rustic verses, many of which are too racy to be aired over the radio. He has sold nearly 1,000,000 record albums, as well as 50,000 copies of a $30 collection of his songs. For his opening at the Bobino, he received 10,072 letters of congratulation from his adoring fans...
...Sato is liked by business executives," observed a Tokyo industrialist. "Kono is liked by barbers and taxi drivers." Both men - Eisaku Sato, 63, and Ichiro Kono, 66 - are even more warmly admired by rival factions of the ruling Conservative-Liberal Party. Last week they became hot rivals in a power struggle for the premiership of Japan. Their opportunity came when Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, who has been hospitalized for eight weeks with a throat tumor, handed in his resignation...