Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most pawed over in the U.S. A precursor of the future at other colleges across the U.S., this year's Ivy League race was the fiercest of all time. It reached such a pitch that one Manhattan executive, overhearing two matrons as they were getting out of a taxi, swears that he heard one say: "Of course I'd sleep with him if I thought it would get Billy into Yale...
Indignantly, Sumpf took his troubles to court, where the prosecution called to the stand 33 witnesses. The first 32 insisted that they simply could not remember the incident. The 33rd witness was 46-year-old Max Kaufmann who ran a taxi, trucking and building-materials business in Köppern. Kaufmann looked at Sumpf's tired face: "I decided to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God and poor Sumpf." On the basis of Kaufmann's testimony, the judge gave one of Sumpf's tormentors four months in jail, sentenced four others...
Last week, refusing to abandon the town where he had spent his whole life, Max Kaufmann was eking out a precarious living from out-of-town customers for his trucking and taxi services. Bewildered and plaintive, he wails: "I stayed out of politics. I only told the truth...
...Kurt Sumpf, who now owns a small taxi business in Frankfurt, there was a happy ending of sorts. "The authorities have helped us build a new existence," he says. "We now live peacefully in Frankfurt, and our boy attends the local school, where his teachers and classmates are very friendly." But Witness Kaufmann did not get off so easily. Neighbors no longer even nodded to him or his family. The tires on his trucks were slashed and a boycott of his building-materials business cost him so many customers that he was finally forced to close it down...
Argentina has the stiffest import duties (a 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air costs $21,691) and an average auto age of 20. It is probably the only nation in the world which had more cars per capita in 1928 than it does now. Many a Buenos Aires taxi is over 30. Taxis chug along, doors tied shut with string, bodies rocking precariously on chassis, drivers flailing their arms to compensate for 180° of steering-wheel play. In Chile, where the buyer of a $2,000 U.S. car must post an import-discouraging $20,000 bond for three months, some...