Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were "awful," the running backs were "only so-so," the linemen were "neither big enough nor quick enough." These heart-rending groans, of course, were only a tactical maneuver - designed to keep prices down. Last year competition for talent between the two pro leagues was so intense that a taxi-squad quarterback got $200,000 in bonus money, a first-stringer got $400,000, and a rookie lineman collected $150,000 just for signing a contract. This year the battle for graduating college stars figures to be fiercer than ever, if for no other reason than that each league...
...Otherwise sane people gambled away hundreds of thousands of dollars at the craps and roulette tables. Several thousand spectators stood around for hours while a priest and police coaxed a shot gun away from a 29-year-old man who was threatening suicide in the back seat of a taxi. On stage at the Sahara, Comedian Buddy Hackett talked for 56 minutes straight - partly about his boy hood bouts with pimples, caused by lack of sex. And at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Cassius Clay, alias Muhammad Ali, spat carefully on the floor while Eddie Fisher was singing The Star...
...fact that the telephones were working. No doubt you are aware that telephones are powered by electricity-and Mother Bell was prepared. Similar efforts were made successfully by the radio stations. Other public utilities were found sadly wanting, including the bus system and the fraternity of New York taxi drivers, who were either unwilling to take fares or overcharged them; they deserve public contempt...
City for $400, in New York for $365 The growing cost of such miscellaneous items as cabs, phones and tips also empties the businessman's pockets. Taxi fares have risen 12% in Helsinki over the past year, about 8% in New York. Tax hikes have raised the price of a bottle of Scotch in Helsinki by 5% to a sobering $11 a fifth. In Helsinki, one British businessman complained to the Financial Times, eating out is "costing $84 a year in tips to cloakroom attendants for bowler hat and umbrella...
...candidate of unity and stability, asked only for "four years of quiet to work," and pleasantly referred to Ben-Gurion's shrill taunts as "our little rupture in Mapai." On election day, the Mapai mobilized 60,000 "volunteers" to get out the vote with bus and taxi, scheduled flights from the Red Sea to enable Tel Aviv vaca tioners to get home and cast their ballots...