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Weight of Evidence. In Bowling Green, Ky., James England was arrested for burglary after he hired a taxi to haul off the goods he stole from a country club...
Mayday. In Lausanne, Switzerland, alarmed by the number of attacks on taxi drivers, police considered a special pedal for cabs that, when pressed, locks all the doors except the driver's, stops the motor, releases a capsule of suffocating gas, blows the horn, starts a flashing light...
...Flags. At stake was control of Africa's biggest nation (pop. 35 million), which gets its independence from Britain next October. Taxi drivers shouted slogans at one another through the traffic; staffs of business firms, and even families, split into opposing camps. Two bickering brothers reached a compromise by flying Zik's flag at the front of their house, Awolowo's at the back...
...little girl and the grown woman seemed to recognize each other at once. Like Anne's, Patty Duke's childhood belonged to the streets of New York. Her father (a taxi driver) and her mother (a checker at Schrafft's) were separated; before Patty got her first TV roles, the family teetered on the edge of poverty. In Miracle Worker, it was Anne to whom Patty looked for approval; it was Anne who became her particular pal. Soon, says Arthur Penn, "Patty and Anne were carrying on conversations in the manual alphabet behind our backs, cracking jokes...
...enormous crowd in the square was held back from the gallows by police and 200 soldiers. Latecomers were arriving by taxi, and villagers streamed in on foot from the surrounding countryside. Mahmud was hailed by the thunderous cry of "Salavat" (Felicity to Mohammed and his descendants). Before his hands were bound, Mahmud handed a ring to the executioner, an ancient custom intended to ensure a speedy death for a condemned man. The noose was slipped about his neck, and the hangman and his assistants hauled smartly on the rope. Mahmud shot six feet off the ground-then the rope broke...