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...Incredible Foam Man. He wouldn't be the first one. Hobey Baker had to join the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I to find some adventure after Princeton football. And after a couple of years as All-Ivy tailback, Cosmo Iacavazzi had to join the New York Jets' taxi squad to find meaning in life...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 5/2/1970 | See Source »

Bowie and one committee member fled to the Harvard Square MBTA island and entered a taxi cab, where demonstrators engulfed and trapped them for 20 minutes. Williamson then escorted Bowie down Church St. away from the crowd, but the two men were followed closely by ten of the demonstrators...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Bowie Charges Students For CFIA Disruption | 4/29/1970 | See Source »

Bowie and Joseph E. Johnson '27, vice-chairman of the Visiting Committee and President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, then fled to the Harvard Square MBTA island and entered a taxi cab, where demonstrators engulfed and trapped them for 20 minutes...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: CFIA Demonstration Face Bowie's Charge Of Rights Violation | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...chafed, reports of battles between Lesothian guerrillas and the country's British-led police began echoing down from the hills. Last week, at diamond-rich Kao, rebels reportedly hurled boulders down on a police convoy. In retaliation, the police commandeered light aircraft from Lesotho Airways (a tiny air-taxi operation owned by the government) and, in a throwback to the aerial tactics of 1914, dumped hand grenades on the rebels. Total rebel losses since the fighting began are put at 150; the police admit that two lawmen have been killed and several more wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lesotho: Death in the Hills | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...have been trying to contact you to determine the areas of inefficiency in the U.S. I tried to call you but the phone didn't work; I tried to write a letter to you but the mails don't work: I tried to take a taxi to your office but I couldn't find an empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 13, 1970 | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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