Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in the biggest mass escape yet, 91 more Cubans-taxi drivers, doctors, government employees, house wives and children - were resting safely in Mexico after a harrowing four-day journey across the Caribbean...
...Darlings." In a succession of bills, Mme. Nhu banned prostitution, contraceptives, abortion, organized animal fights and taxi dancing. Referring to the war, she said, "Dancing with death is enough." In Saigon, "twist easies" began to spring up, and criticism mounted that Mme. Nhu was trying to impose rigid Catholic standards on South Viet Nam's easygoing sexual mores. She herself used to go swimming at the fashionable Cercle Sportif. but stayed away when she saw too many bikinis. Even some government officials privately said that the morality crusade resulted only in increased and unnecessary public hostility toward the Diem regime...
...sound is musical Braille to Kirk. "The buzz of a doorbell is a note," he says; "the clunk of an ash tray on a table, that's percussion. I was riding in a taxi and the driver blew his horn. 'Man, you just made some music,' I told him." Whatever the taxi driver thought, Roland Kirk had found another lost chord...
...other elusive subject is Morris Markin, who learned how to keep his mouth shut during the taxi wars in Chicago in the lurid 1920s. For 31 weeks, Chicago Correspondent Miriam Rumwell got the run-around when she tried to reach him. Finally she turned up at his Checker cab factory in Kalamazoo, was told by David Markin that he didn't know his father's whereabouts. But after a two-hour conversation, in which she apparently passed some kind of test, David asked, "Would you like to see my father?" Reports Miss Rumwell: "We went into a room...
...note to the embassy, urging the U.S. to force Diem to relent; U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting telephoned Vietnamese officials and got assurances that the man would not be molested. But no sooner had the monk left than secret police agents tried to spirit him away in a waiting taxi. The priest fought them off and raced back toward the U.S. embassy. A U.S. official dragged him to safety through the door as a husky Marine guard peeled a Vietnamese cop from the priest's back...