Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minor Issue. Taxi drivers touched off the trouble over a relatively minor issue: the tourist agencies' plan to provide bus or limousine service from the new Nassau International Airport, cutting into the taxis' business. Drivers massed their cars at the entrance halting all air traffic when the airport opened in November. They abided by a cooling-off period of six weeks, then struck again last week. Some 2,000 workers from hotels, construction projects, water works and the power plant went out in sympathy and locked up the island...
...princess' mother disapproved of their getting married (she thought Okubo had "bad manners"). One day last month the young couple entrained for scenic Izu Peninsula, traveled by taxi halfway up storied Amagi Mountain. When Aishinkakura was missed, her mother sent police searching for the couple; later she took to the radio to broadcast her promise to permit the marriage. But there are no radios on Amagi Mountain. After wandering in the misty forest until dusk, the lovers took clippings from their hair and fingernails and wrapped them in white paper as mementos for their families. Okubo changed into...
Died. Howard Rushmore, 45, sometime (1936-39) film critic for the Communist Daily Worker, longtime (1939-54) Red-hunting reporter for the New York Journal-American, ex-editor of scandal-pandering Confidential; by his own hand (pistol), after killing his estranged second wife Frances, 37, in a Manhattan taxi. Big (6 ft. 4 in.), brooding Reporter Rushmore, "Tenth Generation American," joined the Communist Party in 1933, quit after the Worker rejected his off-the-line review of Gone With the Wind, soon became a nationally bylined Hearst exposé specialist. A special investigator for the late Senator McCarthy, Rushmore testified...
...Paris taxi drivers had only one question for their U.S. passengers: "How is General Ike?" The people of Western Europe had awaited Ike's arrival half in dread, fearful that illness had drained his vitality and transformed the buoyant commander of World War II into a tired old man. But as the President of the U.S. plunged eagerly into a hectic round of private talks and public appearances, fear gave way to reassurance. "Ike's smile," reported Paris' Journal du Dimanche, "has again played its magic role...
...best humorous writing turns on a man's well-intentioned efforts to accomplish something-from assembling a do-it-yourself barbecue pit to catching a taxi in a downpour-and the fun lies in his frustration. Purdy uses much the same theme, but his purpose is to reveal the horror underlying the humor. The father who gets kicked in the groin has been trying to make up to his small son for his orphaned state. The husband and wife who belabor each other seem right off the burlesque stage, but the story's aim is to expose...