Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even for Saigon, a city that has seen all manner of demonstrations, it was an unusual protest. Into Workers Union Headquarters last week marched 200 perfumed professionals, representatives of the 50,000 bar girls and taxi dancers who make their living by catering to the loneliness of the American G.I. They were distressed by the threat of the reform-minded government of Nguyen Van Thieu to close down saigon's 160 cabarets and 47 dance halls. Unless their livelihoods were protected, they said, they would take to the streets like the Buddhists in opposition to the government...
...Dockery's career in the pro's has been discouraging. He tried out for the Miami Dolphins this year but was cut. The Dolphins offered to put him on the taxi squad, but Dockery refused. "I was very aggravated to be let go. Like every one else, I thought I got the short end of the stick," he said...
...contacted by the Jets who offered to let him play for the Waterbury Orbits for a few weeks. The Jets promised to consider signing him at the end of this trial period. Dockery took the offer and after four weeks with the Orbits, the Jets signed him for the taxi squad...
Paranoia had already set in. Once inside the terminal, two women came up and apologetically asked me if I were a "Hippy" and if I were going to the march. There was nothing to say. At the taxi stand the marchers recognized each other with few words...
...trim, athletic-looking man, dressed entirely in grey, stepped from a West Berlin taxi near a checkpoint at Heinrich-Heine-Strasse. He beckoned to an East German border guard, exchanged a few words with him, and then hurried across the border into East Berlin. The man was not a defector or a spy. He was a high-ranking West German official who carried in his black briefcase an important letter from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger to Premier Willi Stoph of East Germany...