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Comrades & Spies. Jaanimets ran himself breathless; then he tried to hail a taxi. He could not make himself under stood, either in Estonian or in broken Russian. Desperately he called another cab. This time he got a ride downtown...
Cars driving along the new expressway that knifes into the city from the north were stoned and shot at. White taxi driv ers venturing into the Negro section were burned by potash. Fire bombs were tossed. A Negro ex-convict named Charlie Davis led a shooting raid on a white filling station, got shot in the head himself and was killed when his car crashed into a utility pole. Negro gangs gave up fighting among themselves, banded together against the common enemy and roamed the streets looking for trouble. In a single day 50 people were injured...
...investigations have already circled around another high Chrysler executive. Jack Minor, marketing director of the Plymouth-De Soto-Valiant division, admitted that he was a principal owner and director until early this year of a Detroit company called Taxi-Ads, into which Chrysler has paid several hundred thousand dollars for advertising during the last eight years. Detroit insiders think that Minor may be the next to go. If he does, he probably will not be the last. From Washington came word that the Securities and Exchange Commission is studying the Newburg case to determine whether anyone violated SEC proxy regulations...
...Federal Government for matching funds, a city's claim on the state for tax revenue, a government's projection of the size of its future public services, and even U.S. business guesses about the size and location of markets. Last week the national dials spun like taxi meters as the preliminary figures for the 1960 census showed that the U.S. population has risen by 28 million in ten years (a vigorous 18.6% growth rate) to an estimated total of 179.5 million...
...positions had hardened. Producers called the actors "unstable transient workers" and "gypsies." Since many of them profess liberal ideals, their position was uncomfortable. Wrote New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton: "The producers include a number of passionately devoted liberals beneath whose Stevenson buttons beat hearts that click like taxi meters...