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Overlap. In Tokyo, everyone was ruled blameless after a three-car collision involving 1) an expectant mother being rushed to the hospital in a taxi, 2) an off-duty traffic inspector chasing the cab, 3) the lady's obstetrician...
Major General John Medaris, U.S. Army, 55, commander of the Huntsville Agency, with black mustache and swagger stick, often comes across as the dashing soldier type. He is something more and something different. Ohio-born John Medaris worked his way through high school driving a lobster-shift taxi and street car, began flying at twelve (he lied about his age). On his 16th birthday he enlisted in the Marine Corps, arrived in France too late for combat, was discharged as a corporal, and went back to Ohio State University for a degree in mechanical engineering. As a senior R.O.T.C. cadet...
Minor Issue. Taxi drivers touched off the trouble over a relatively minor issue: the tourist agencies' plan to provide bus or limousine service from the new Nassau International Airport, cutting into the taxis' business. Drivers massed their cars at the entrance halting all air traffic when the airport opened in November. They abided by a cooling-off period of six weeks, then struck again last week. Some 2,000 workers from hotels, construction projects, water works and the power plant went out in sympathy and locked up the island...
...princess' mother disapproved of their getting married (she thought Okubo had "bad manners"). One day last month the young couple entrained for scenic Izu Peninsula, traveled by taxi halfway up storied Amagi Mountain. When Aishinkakura was missed, her mother sent police searching for the couple; later she took to the radio to broadcast her promise to permit the marriage. But there are no radios on Amagi Mountain. After wandering in the misty forest until dusk, the lovers took clippings from their hair and fingernails and wrapped them in white paper as mementos for their families. Okubo changed into...
Died. Howard Rushmore, 45, sometime (1936-39) film critic for the Communist Daily Worker, longtime (1939-54) Red-hunting reporter for the New York Journal-American, ex-editor of scandal-pandering Confidential; by his own hand (pistol), after killing his estranged second wife Frances, 37, in a Manhattan taxi. Big (6 ft. 4 in.), brooding Reporter Rushmore, "Tenth Generation American," joined the Communist Party in 1933, quit after the Worker rejected his off-the-line review of Gone With the Wind, soon became a nationally bylined Hearst exposé specialist. A special investigator for the late Senator McCarthy, Rushmore testified...