Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conducted sotto voce-there were no formal public speeches-and minus retinue. He even left his wife Ethel home, traveled with just two U.S. newsmen and one unofficial aide, New York Attorney William vanden Heuvel. One left-at-home assistant was incredulous: "Who's paying the taxi drivers? Who's finding the cuff links?" Who, indeed? Kennedy arrived in Bonn with one cuff waving. These and other mishaps were minor, although he was obliged at the Oxford Union to detour via a ladies' lavatory to avoid some Viet Nam demonstrators. "God bless you," he told two startled...
...ultramodern exuberance from the scabbed red roofs of Dutch colonial slums. Since the signing of the Korean-Japanese Normalization Treaty in 1965, the Japanese presence in South Korea has redoubled: Japanese tourists swarm through Seoul, businessmen enjoy the gamy delights of the Walker Hill sex complex, and Japanese Corona taxi-cabs-now assembled in Korea-throng the streets. In Taipei's elegant hostelries, pin-striped Japanese papa-sans and their kimono-clad ladies queue up for bus tours to the Japanese-style inns that dot Taiwan's craggy green coast...
Slowly, silently and in single file, 500 New York taxis with "Off Duty" signs aglow last week made the 15-mile trip from a Bronx funeral parlor to Kennedy Airport. In a hearse at the front was the body of Carlos Quilly, who had been fatally shot in the back while driving his taxi, and was being flown back to Puerto Rico for burial. The cortege was a moving protest by the drivers against their biggest occupational hazard: violent crime. Reported holdups of New York cab drivers number more than 600 a year, and 14 cabbies have been murdered...
...week visit to the U.S. left French Author François Sagan, 31, with a certain smile. "In America, they trust you," she wrote in the weekly Candide. "They will lend you their cars, their apartments, anything. They are so open that it's troubling. The taxi driver tells you his life story, salesgirls call you 'honey.'" Hélas, she also found much tristesse: "Americans are afraid, afraid of everything, especially of losing their position, of being sick, of not being able to pay their installments on time. And of their redoubtable women they are afraid...
...taken some mighty peculiar risks. A service station folded because the owner wasn't around enough to keep track of the operation. A small manufacturer of plastics and draperies failed because he priced his products below cost. Even though he had undergone one bankruptcy before, Chicago Taxi Driver Lawrence Young persuaded the SBA to lend him $19,500 to launch a Chicken Delight carry-out shop. It subsequently foundered to the extent that the agency lost $14,000 even after auctioning the fixtures for $5,000. Young, now working as a janitor, blames his misfortune partly on his failure...