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Some folks say his worst accident was in 1943 when a taxi knocked him down and broke his leg. Others insist that it was the day in 1962 when he was made manager of the New York Mets. Now, baseball's noblest showman Casey Stengel, 74, has a fractured right wrist. It cracked when he fell on a concrete ramp just before his Mets played an exhibition game against the cadets at West Point. While the Mets were winning, 8-0, surgeons cased Case in plaster and a green sling. Then he returned home, waved his still-solid southpaw...
...painful, not boring, painful! It's everything I hated about school. It's become nine-to-five." And sobering. She used to grab last-minute cabs to the theater. "It made for its own excitement," recalls Barbra, especially when she couldn't find a taxi. Once she arrived in a police car; another time she commandeered a truck. "Then I thought, 'What am I going through all this agony for?' All the other stars drive up in cars, and I get out of a truck...
Crowds of people always fill the streets in Peking. Cars are few and the speed limit is low because bicycles choke the streets during rush hour. Taxi-cabs are too few to hail on the streets, but can be called by phone. If a taxi-driver doesn't seem to know the city, it is usually because she is an administrator taking her turn in the lower ranks. (This is a normal practice throughout Chinese society: a factory manager will work for a time at the bench and an army officer will serve as a "private...
...encourage concierges, waiters, taxi drivers and the like, each tourist will receive a "carnet de cheques-sourire" (checkbook of smiles), with tickets that he can tear out and distribute (along with his tip) as a reward for especially cheerful service. At the end of the season, 50 beaming Frenchmen with the largest number of smiles will win a brand-new car, a free vacation to Tahiti or the West Indies, or another prize. Will it work? One skeptical tourist official sighs, "Parisians are born complainers-they don't even like each other, not to mention tourists." And he shrugs...
Verbally, and for the best of causes, she has ridden as rough as daddy-and the ride's not over. As her Negro chauffeur drove Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 81, through placid residential Washington, he nearly collided with a taxi, whose white Southern driver jumped out, yelling: "You black s.o.b., what do you think you're doing?" At which Teddy Roosevelt's daughter rolled down her window, fastened the cab driver with a cool blue glare, and demanded: "You white s.o.b., what do you think you're doing...