Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small private plane flew over Providence en route to Boston, the pilot turned on his FM radio and heard the announcement for an upcoming concert. Wow! He immediately landed the plane, took a taxi downtown and bought a pair of tickets. Then he resumed his flight. Standing in line at a supermarket in Plymouth, Mass., a young couple was given a handbill bearing similar news. Wow! They left their cart where it was and dashed downtown to buy tickets. And so it went as the word spread. "Is he really coming?" asked a teen-age girl at the ticket window...
Later, when Casey was managing the Boston Braves to a nothing season, he was struck by a taxi and incapacitated...
...Madrid government is torn between its desire to win European respectability and its response to public opinion at home, which runs strongly against political terrorism. Says a highly placed aide in the Spanish Cabinet: "It is a dilemma of conscience. The man in the street, your cook, your taxi driver, is very happy to see order restored. Killing police in the streets is intolerable. These people [the terrorists] are guilty, but we are failing to prove it to the outside...
...businessmen, middle-class women, "drag queens," transsexuals, male prostitutes and sadomasochists. At the Eagle, an s. and m. bar on Manhattan's Lower West Side, the uptown "Bloomingdale's crowd" is derided by a tightly packed throng of men in leather and Levi's. They come by subway or taxi rather than motorcycle, but they often wear motorcycle outfits, chains, handcuffs at the hips. Various colored handkerchiefs indicate different exotic sexual specialties, all of which can be quite confusing (see box page 43). "The leather bars are dangerous," said a New York bank vice president who was once handcuffed
...Yellow Pages of the telephone directory; they represent armored-car drivers, newspaper deliverers, gas-station employees, airline stewardesses and meat packers. The city's Local 727 goes by the somewhat unbelievable official name of "The Auto Livery, Chauffeurs, Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Apprentice Ambulance Drivers and Helpers, Taxi Cab Drivers, Miscellaneous Garage Employees, Car Washers, Greasers, Polishers and Wash Rack Attendants Local." In Michigan recently, state police sergeants and lieutenants voted for Teamster affiliation-and got it. In California, the Teamster net covers scientists, nurses, firemen, even district attorneys...