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...Americans, who teaches fencing from the rudiments to subtleties to build his contending teams, who annually unleashes his troops on New York City and relishes good wine and Tchaikovsky as much as fencing, who transports his squad in his personal car with driving skills ranking somewhere between a Boston taxi driver and a blind man, who has become a living tradition, an expectation, a pleasant and different surprise, who fits the kindly old world professor image more than the American coaching stereotype and who amalgamates the two into an unforgettable and wonderfully unique balance. Edo Marion remains...
...inability to provide them with spare parts. The revolt has paralyzed the nation's transportation system, causing severe shortages of fuel, food and other essential goods. Movement in three southern provinces has all but ceased, public transportation in the capital has been cut in half, and taxi owners have staged a sympathy strike for the truckers...
Merton's sensitive social conscience made it difficult for him to confront the immense poverty he saw. Shortly after he arrived in Calcutta, a small beggar girl appeared at his taxi window before he could buy any Indian money. Merton was helpless. He recalled "the utterly lovely smile with which she stretched out her hand, and then the extinguishing of the light when she drew it back empty. She fell away from the taxi window as if she were sinking in water and drowning. I wanted...
...Pentagon papers case, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger criticized the New York Times for failing "to perform one of the basic and simple duties of every citizen" when it became aware of stolen property. "That duty ... was to report forthwith to responsible officers. This duty rests on taxi drivers, Justices and the New York Times." It is because of observations like these that many legal scholars guess that the President would lose a court test against a Cox grand jury, and sooner or later must yield...
...stuck out her tongue at him. Forcing the woman's car to a halt, the general pressed his revolver against her head and demanded an apology. When angry pedestrians let the air out of the tires of his car, Prats beat a hasty retreat in a taxi. Allende used the "provocation" to wrap a "zone of emergency" around Santiago province. Some civil liberties were suspended, and the police were placed under direct military control. But by that time, a few right-wing army officers had made final their plans for the coup...