Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While our correspondents on campuses contributed much to the story, many key interviews were handled by Education Reporter Peter Babcox. At his alma mater, Columbia College (Class of '60), he taped the thoughts of Rebel Student Leader David Shapiro during a taxi ride to Queens, where the Phi Beta Kappa poet was to give a reading. Later, Peter sat in on a midnight bull session with students in Buffalo, then drove the next morning to State College, Pa., with Sociologist Edgar Friedenberg, interviewing him en route. Babcox ended his school swing in a talk with a Penn State senior...
...acts or "unreliable opinions." Such redress as there has been has come from ordinary citizens trying to do something for the victims. Committees set up in factories, offices and clubs have got clerical jobs for lawyers who had been forced by Novotný to work in mines, have made taxi drivers out of students who, as punishment, had been condemned to do manual labor...
Eventually we made it into downtown Indianapolis. We had to go by taxi. It wasn't that the McCarthy people couldn't supply enough cars to pick us up; their gas pool had run out of money. The cabbie showed us the area's few points of interest. Indianapolis is a city whose parks are littered with preserved tanks and artillery the way some people clutter their coffee tables with bronzed baby shoes. Many of its public buildings are self-conscious copies of old Washington favorites. Its war memorials offer some of the most embarrassing examples of social realism west...
Aimed at local air-taxi outfits, which have sprung up around the world to serve the short runs now spurned by big jets, the Islander is in remarkable demand. Since the first production model appeared barely 18 months ago, 16 air-taxi companies have put the plane into service from Scotland's Orkney Islands to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. More than 200, worth a total of $15 million, are now on order, and production is sold out well into 1969. With 800 workers straining to increase the Islander's one-a-week rate, Britten-Norman...
...There, while investigating a surge in charters of their crop-dusters, Britten and Norman found that the planes were being used to fill an air-travel void left by the retirement of World War II-vintage DC-3s. The partners wasted no time in starting a study of air-taxi services in all parts of the world. What they found was that the average flight was less than 50 miles. The high speed (180 m.p.h. and up) of the typical four-to-five-passenger, $70,000 executive plane then in use on most such runs hardly made sense to them...