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Almost as common as a taxi driver's conviction that his experiences would make a terrific book is the delusion that one's fascinating family would make a colorful chronicle. John H. Davis, 39, who has been working on educational projects for the past ten years, first thought that he had a novel in the shirtsleeves-to-Social Register saga of his forebears and contemporaries, the Bouviers. When a cousin named Jacqueline became America's First Lady and then a fabulous folk heroine, it was immediately obvious to the highly motivated men of the book business that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dynastic Pickings | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

Four Harvard students and a Cambridge taxi driver will be tried Friday in Middlesex County Third District Court on felony charges stemming from the police raid on University Hall...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Five Still Facing Prison Sentences | 5/12/1969 | See Source »

Those charged are: Michael J. Bishop '70, larceny from a person, punishable by a sentence of up of five years; John E. Cross '69, assault and battery, carrying in a maximum sentence of two and one half years; Mark Ling, a Cambridge taxi drivers, malicious destruction of property maximum of five years; Carl D. Offner, a graduate student in mathematics, assault and battery; and Michael Prokosch '70, possession of narcotics...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Five Still Facing Prison Sentences | 5/12/1969 | See Source »

...pipe fitters and carpenters, Pittsburgh's Dravo Corp. has been importing European employees through Canada. Kaynar Manufacturing Co. of Fullerton, Calif., is seeking to bring in Japanese workers to meet its demand for machine-tool operators. New York City social-service agencies have begun referring welfare recipients to taxi companies, whose shortage of 2,500 drivers has aggravated the chronic scarcity of cabs on city streets. Brokerage houses offer as much as $20,000 for senior clerks to help cope with Wall Street's paper pileup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: A Good Paper Shuffler Is Hard to Find | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...change. "Miss," he began, "could you-" She let him have it with her G-G31 tear-gas device, a $24.95 gun that enfolds its target in a 12-ft. by 6-ft. cloud of tear gas and dye. Blinded, reeling, John staggered off down the street and hailed a taxi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Long Day in the Frightful Life | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

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