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...alleged participation in a riot outside the University Theatre. A fight outside the theatre between two inebriated men, neither of whom were students, coincided with the theatre let-out. When police tried to lead the men away, the crowd rose to the occasion, jostled the officers and pushed a taxi to the sidewalk. One of the officers then pulled his pistol and held up the crowd until four paddy wagons arrived with 40 policemen, night sticks in hand, to dispatch the uprising...
...British history when it has been easier to govern than to oppose." Yet the voting swing to the Conservative Party was less than 2%. The Tories' white-haired campaign manager, avuncular old Lord Woolton, acknowledged that "the low poll" was the key to victory. He quoted a taxi driver in Stockport: "I had nothing to grumble about." Lord Woolton's conclusion was realistic: "A large number of people have not voted Conservative but have abstained from voting...
...York. In addition he remains in personal contact with many of the New York Russians (Kerensky visited him in Cambridge last month) and often meets fellow exiles in various parts of the Western world. On his last visit to Paris, he relates, it seemed that at least half the taxi-drivers there were Russian expatriates...
...symbolic ribbon to release the tide of amiability that promised to engulf the land. Even France's bureaucrats were told to smile, but there was one breed of Frenchmen that not even Ranville's crusaders dared touch. A plan to present a prize to the politest French taxi driver was hastily dropped. Explained Ranville: "We would have wasted too much time looking...
...military men, the helicopter is fast becoming as useful and ubiquitous as the jeep. In Washington last week, the Defense Department made plans for a heliport beside the Pentagon to permit aerial taxi service between bases in the area; overall, some 6,000 military helicopters do every job from air-sea rescue to artillery spotting. But so far, civilians have gained few of the advantages of helicopters. To date, only 300 commercial helicopters operate around the U.S., even though the potential market is enormous. Predicted CAAdministrator Frederick B. Lee: "In ten years there will be 286 daily helicopter movements between...