Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inequality between rich and poor, to the extent that it was based on the ownership of property, has been virtually eliminated. Except for taxi cubs and a few other minor exceptions, all non-agricultural means of production are owned by the state, and the government owns about 60 per cent of all the land. And the social inequality due to ownership of property is pretty much gone. There are still some peasants, who by Cuban standards are fairly wealthy and you can make a very good living through owning housing. Private Individuals Can Still Own And Rent Housing...
Long Fingernail. Who are the intellectuals? The Western image of the intellectual as a man primarily concerned with the quest for knowledge is almost irrelevant. Some Vietnamese regard anyone who does not work with his hands as an intellectual. Thus clerks and even taxi drivers affect the long fingernail on the little finger, mandarin-style...
...does a good wire argue with a victim over a taxi. Can you think of a better way for a mark to pick out a mug shot of you later in the police station...
Sentimental Favorite. At least 4,000,000 people in the Soviet Union play chess regularly, including 30 of the 85 players in the world who are ranked as international grandmasters, the equivalent of karate's black belt. Every town from Khabaroush to Kiev has a chess club. Taxi drivers vent their pent-up hostilities across the boards during lunch breaks. City parks teem with chess hustlers. Soviet children, who learn the game in Young Pioneer youth groups, argue Sicilian defenses and queen's gambits with the same passion that American kids show when they talk about double plays...
...Call. Ditto was chopping 500 Ibs. of cotton a day in his native Texas when he was 13. He has been speaking up for the poor and the black since the day in 1961 when he left his Chicago taxi-driving job to join a school demonstration. Since then he has been arrested 18 times. He became a community organizer and marched for 155 consecutive days with Dick Gregory...