Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nepal's surplus food, thus ending the country's dependence on In dia for virtually all its industrial imports. When it was pointed out that the road will also enable the Red Chinese to penetrate the heart of Nepal, Mahendra airily replied: "Communism does not travel by taxi." In fact, as Nepalese officials readily admit, China can simply walk into their country any time it chooses...
...purposes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned one of its own agents, Robert Tonis, to follow him. The German boarded a train for Boston, and Tonis, according to plan, waited for him at South Station. But as soon as the train pulled in, the spy dashed into a taxi, sped up Memorial Drive, stopped at Harvard, and ran into one of the Houses on the Charles River. Although Tonis had been close behind he was unable to pick up the trail: the man seemed to have vanished. Sometime later, the F.B.I. learned that the German had eluded pursuit by slipping...
...travel and tourism have made him, at 47, one of Japan's most remarkable postwar millionaires. He operates through his Tokyo-based company, Kokusai Kogyo, whose sales last year rose to $61 million. Among other things, the firm owns and operates Japan's biggest bus and taxi fleets, seven Japanese hotels and a string of driving schools, travel agencies and sporting-goods shops. It is also Japan's largest distributor of Chrysler Corp. autos and its sole distributor of International Harvester farm and construction equipment. As if all this were not enough, Osano last year bought three...
...Wounded in China and discharged from the Japanese army before Pearl Harbor, he piled up a fortune by supplying spare auto parts to the Imperial Navy. At war's end, expecting an eventual travel boom, he used his profits to start buying hotels, also began acquiring bus and taxi companies. After the Korean war, as prospering Japanese businessmen began buying more foreign goods, he started importing U.S. autos and golf clubs. As sole owner of his many-sided business empire, Osano has amassed a personal fortune of about $140 million...
Separate Room. On the surface, the story of John and Mary Cheever is a period piece of the '30s. John called in a taxi at Mary's rooming house and swept her off to his Village apartment, where they set up housekeeping. Actually, with vestigial New England punctilio, Mary was installed in a separate room. In any case, events shifted the story into a pattern closer to John's anachronistic traditions. With all the pomp of an outraged Victorian parent, Mary's father descended upon the pair and demanded to know John's intentions. "Marriage...