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...what everybody ought to stick to, although the situation is increasingly complex; and the Marquand menace is what more and more people face. On their summer travels across the U.S. this year, Americans will run into many regional tipping differences. New Yorkers will be overcome when a Southern taxi driver not only thanks them for a 10% tip but actually opens the door, and Californians will find that Yankee New Englanders still throw quarters around as if they were manhole covers...
...average Saudi's favorite station. As a counterweight, the government has recently been encouraging a native Saudi nationalism. Two months ago, Saud told the U.S. that it would have to get out of its big Dhahran airbase when the lease ran out in 1962. Recently, all non-Saudi taxi drivers lost their licenses, and Bedouins, according to one observer, "were hauled off their camels and into the driver's seat." The experiment left Riyadh littered with smashed cars...
...good thing; it's the only way to break the barrier," commented a taxi driver. One woman maintained, "They have a right to picked. That...
...that a health center about four miles away was the only place where medicine could be obtained. Inspecting a relatively comfortable hut, Shriver remarked: "This guy is really well off." He was quietly informed that the hut's owner sustained himself and his family by working as a taxi driver in Bombay, some 800 miles from home...
...biologist, and fell madly in love with a girl with expensive tastes named Ora Zahavi. To keep Ora happy, Beer went heavily into debt and borrowed from everyone in sight. Two of his front teeth were knocked out in a fist fight with Ora's divorced husband, a taxi driver. Beer's increasingly eccentric behavior worried the secret police, and their shadowing of him paid off when Beer met privately with a known Communist agent. A search of his home turned up 60 Ibs. of documents and correspondence. On hearing of Beer's arrest, Premier Ben-Gurion...