Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POPSI Project. With some reason, the FCC can answer its critics with the defense that its jurisdiction-the entire publicly owned electromagnetic spectrum-is just unmanageable on a $19 million pittance of a budget. It is the FCC that assigns frequencies to ham operators and taxi fleets, TV stations and aviation controllers. It is trying to clear the maddening interference-ridden nighttime AM radio band and the general clutter that hampered police communications during the Watts, Newark and Detroit riots. When people complain about excessive telephone or telegraph rates, or that radio-controlled garage doors are fouling up aircraft communications...
There were lots of middle class kids, but not upper middle class, professionals, and a lot of working class kids. It was a tough school, football gang type. No pressure to succeed, in fact just the opposite. I could taxi along very comfortably. I even copied some of the work I had to do from some of the other kids. I adapted to that extent. My first semester I had a 93 average. I was smarter than all but one or two kids in the school so I had no trouble getting...
With his three-foot-high caricature half done, Scarfe moved to Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel where he applied the finishing touches, dressing the completed figure in a shirt and sports jacket lent by Galbraith. As he carried it into a crowded elevator on his way downstairs to a taxi, a little old lady tapped him on the shoulder and asked: "Is that John Galbraith?" "I was delighted," says Scarfe. "It was the first time anyone had seen...
...parietals one House Master maintained that the present parietals set-up was quite adequate for a natural relationship to develop. "It is natural," one student replied, "only if you assume that it is natural to have intercourse with a girl and then to have to stick her in a taxi...
...treaty to Chicago, and Hunt smuggled it through customs. Lewis negotiated for weeks to get the treaty, and pledged his word never to reveal the facts. We at the Tribune believe it was a Chinese diplomat who gave us his copy. The negotiations took place in a stalled taxi in the middle of the Place de la Concorde-this was Lewis' brilliant idea-the only place in the world safe from being overheard. The treaty was mysteriously dropped through the letter slot at the Tribune, wrapped in a piece of Chinese silk (some say a kimono). It would have...