Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After graduating from Mercersburg Academy, Stockly entered Princeton where he majored in French. "At that time." he says, "there were three things I wanted to do: drive a taxi, fly a plane and work on a newspaper." In due course he accomplished all three. Between his junior and senior years at Princeton, he drove a cab around Pittsburgh for six months. "The third day I had the cab job, a man asked me to drive him and his son (the patient) to an insane asylum about 15 miles away. I was so new I didn't know...
West Berlin police arrested a pudgy little drunk in a greasy suit for brawling over his taxi fare, found that he was none other than Hanns Eisler, East Germany's top composer, former Hollywood tunesmith, and brother of famed Communist Gerhart Eisler. Barely able to stand on his feet, Eisler treated his jailers to a long night of pie-eyed indiscretions. "The stock of freedom in East Germany is not high," he shouted. "Too much freedom doesn't become a people. As for the uprising of June 17, "we expected it because the workers were not living...
...people owe their livelihood to Fiat; off the assembly lines of its 15 plants roll 90% of Italy's cars. But automaking is only the core of Fiat's industrial empire. A visitor to Turin rides to a Fiat-owned hotel in a Fiat taxi, reads a Fiat newspaper, drinks Fiat's Cinzano vermouth, shops at a Fiat drugstore, leaves for Milan over the Fiat-controlled autostrada (toll road...
...your description of the London taxi [April 20] written by an American whose knowledge of England is confined to Hollywoodery, or by a lippitudinous Londoner? Let me disabuse you and him and many an innocent reader: that vehicle, unlike the North American cab, is designed for its special job-which includes the easy coping with as much baggage as any passenger is likely to have . . . And far from being a sort of automobilic coelacanth . . . the London taxi has steadily evolved and has always been equipped with the best current power unit and general equipment...
With some of your criticisms of London taxis any Londoner must agree . . . The basic design of the London taxi has changed little with the years, yet . . . the "rubber bulb horn and the wheezy engine" have now been superseded by a large and growing fleet of "radio cabs," conforming ... to a design intended to make turning and parking easy in narrow streets, yet clean, up-to-date and as comfortable as most cabs in most cities. We still have a few Georgian relics . . . but they are vanishing fast. Some, no doubt, have gone to California where, for the next few years...