Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...travel. His "New Incarnation" of the Beatles was not built with much movement in mind, but his effigies will be getting around almost as much as the real-life originals. After four days in TIME'S window, their schedule called for an other car trip - this time by taxi - to the BBC television studios for an appearance on a program called Late Night Line-Up. From there, they went back to New Bond Street for a second tour in the show window...
...much has changed. True, the fashion is Bermuda shorts instead of bloomers and Tijuana Taxi instead of Yes, We Have No Bananas. But otherwise the concerts are like snapshots out of an old family album, with folding chairs and blankets on the grass; piccolos and glockenspiels, vanilla uniforms with sundae braid and dangling whistles; waltzes and marches and "special symphonic versions" of Lady of Spain and Ethelbert Nevin's Rosary...
...radio from its "ham" stage to its role as key instrument in a mushrooming minuteman-like communications network has been its adoption by U.S. industry. Thousands of companies and other private organizations now use two-way radios to call their men in the field, be they taxi drivers, repairmen, or even tractor drivers on large farms. Then, the manufacturers of communications and electronics equipment have not been slow to realize the plan's clear-cut potential for community service, as well as boosting sales...
Slums & Monuments. In Ireland, the English tend to become more Irish than the Irish. The taxi driver who took Pritchett to his first hotel was full of "bedads" and "begobs," but turned out to be a cockney. Ironically, the great buildings of this attractive city were erected by the Anglo-Irish in their 18th century heyday; fortunately, they escaped disfiguration during the 19th century industrial revolution that blighted England's cities but bypassed Ireland, in part because of its disastrous famines, in part because of its own preoccupation with its more romantic national affairs. The Bank of Ireland (once...
...matter of patriotic duty in the chaotic wartime years of Japanese occupation, and the habit has lingered on. Kickbacks, voting-place vandalism, judge buying and customhouse connivance are still the fashion. At a busy Manila intersection, a white-uniformed traffic cop waves through the traffic. As each passenger-laden taxi passes by, a hand shoots out and deftly deposits something in the cop's cupped fist. "Corruption?" blurts an astonished cab driver. "He needs it for his family. And if I didn't give him 50 centavos once in a while, he wouldn't let me park...