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Died. Johanna Davis, 36, novelist and former TIME writer; after being hit by a taxi outside her Greenwich Village home; in Manhattan. Daughter of Hollywood's much-storied Screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), "Josie" Davis joined TIME in 1959 as a secretary and later wrote for its Show Business and Modern Living sections. She resigned from TIME in 1972 to work on Life Signs, a wry, witty tale of the psychic perils facing a young Manhattan mother...
...When these were not fulfilled, they struck until the country was groggy. Affluence-seeking consumers did their best to make the dolce vita permanent. Inevitably, inflation began to spiral toward a current rate of 20% a year. New worker protests took place, including a massive "park-in" by Rome taxi drivers demanding higher fares. With money reserves dwindling as Italy tried to correct a severe balance of payments deficit, last year's oil crisis dealt the economy a devastating blow; the European country most dependent on Arab oil suddenly found petroleum prices quadrupled...
...just as likely to be black as white. If someone comes to audit my taxes, chances are that that 'someone' will be black-and a woman too. There are black bankers in Chicago, the deputy police superintendent is black, the general manager of one of the major taxi companies is black. Yet when I came to Chicago in 1933, there were no black taxi drivers...
...minute, an arrangement designed to keep them moving as rapidly as possible. The Witkar is not only nonpolluting but also practical for downtown transportation-three of the Witkars occupy the space taken by a standard-sized European sedan-and it costs less than half as much as a taxi for the average trip. Next, Inventor Schimmelpennink, something of a Dutch Don Quixote, hopes to convert some abandoned windmills so his white chargers can be charged up by nonpolluting energy sources...
...been reading the Globe want-ad section assiduously for three months after returning to Boston in September from California with no results. Had I wanted to be a taxi driver, clerk-typist, or management trainee with Jack-In-The-Box I would have been in fat city, but since I was looking for something a bit more meaningful I was getting nowhere. One day I saw an ad that sounded appealing: EARN UP TO $160 A WEEK (BASED ON PRODUCTIVITY), it said, directing its cleverly worded pitch to those between school, out of school, and between the ages...