Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pall of tear gas hung over Santiago last week. Soldiers toting submachine guns stood on nearly every street corner, and enforced a midnight-to-dawn curfew. Half the city seemed out on strike -truckers, taxi owners, and even a majority of doctors, dentists, lawyers, engineers, pharmacists and maritime pilots. In a television appeal, beleaguered President Salvador Allende Gossens declared that the country was on "the brink of civil...
...most optimistic police officials admit that a significant part of the change in crime rates reflects an enforced change in American life. The new auto steering-wheel locks, for instance, get credit for much of the drop in car thefts. The same sort of result is achieved when taxi drivers carry little change to be robbed of, and when their cabs are equipped with bulletproof partitions. Young women who live alone are safer when they keep dogs in their apartments; welfare clients are foiling mailbox thieves by picking up their checks in person; and elderly Boston women are going...
...military planes scrambled to shadow the Boeing 707 jet. Twice Australian stations radioed, "How are you going?" which according to prearranged codes meant, "Have you been hijacked?" "Normal," came the answer. In Singapore more than 100 policemen and soldiers mustered to meet the plane. Flight 472 was ordered to taxi to an isolated area of Singapore's airport, and passengers were held aboard. At the air terminal, meanwhile, an Olympic official arrived ready to pay whatever the skyjacker demanded to release the 42 people on the aircraft...
Even considering the inflationary atmosphere in and around high-priced New York City, $237 is a lot to pay for a taxi ride. When British Tourist Mrs. Margaret Morgan, 71, landed at Kennedy Airport and took a cab 30 miles to Woodbridge, N.J., she was somewhat astonished at the driver's tab. But "he was a big fellow," said Mrs. Morgan, so she handed over all her money, borrowed another $150 from the cousin she was visiting to pay what should have been a $35 fare. Mrs. Morgan's story hit the newspapers, prompting help from a wholly...
...radio's Amos 'n' Andy for more than three decades; of a heart attack; in Chicago. After several years on the Southern tent-show circuit, Correll and another white vaudevillian, Freeman Gosden, teamed up on radio in 1928 to create the roles of Amos (a kindly taxi driver played by Gosden) and Andy (a scheming misadventurer portrayed by Correll). With its fractured black-dialect humor, the show became radio's first major craze. At the height of the program's popularity in the '30s, hotels canceled room service and movie theaters stopped their features...