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...boarding home, he threw tantrums and complained that he wanted a bicycle like other kids. At twelve, he quit school; when he was hauled before a judge he sullenly asked to be sent to the reformatory. A married sister got him out; he responded by robbing a Joplin taxi driver...
Meanwhile, most O.C.I. officials in Teheran had become disgusted with corruption and inefficiency in the Iranian government. In recent weeks a traveler who asked a Teheran taxi driver to take him to the Seven-Year-Plan Building was likely to meet the question, "You mean the Seven-Hundred-Year Plan?" O.C.I., recognizing that its experts were costing the hard-pressed Iranian government money that it could ill afford to spend, two months ago offered to end the contract. Last week the government accepted the offer...
...government is bringing along natives as No. 2 men in all departments. By Oriental standards education is already advanced (literacy is around 40%), and big school-building programs are afoot. On my way out to see Mac-Donald at "Bukit Serene," three miles from Johore Bahru, the Malayan taxi driver said: "If we were going five miles, I would have to ask you to lie down on the floor. The bandits keep watch at five miles. If they saw you, then at seven miles they would shoot at us. I think they telephone ahead." The strange thing about all this...
...calf in a field; to whisper something into the wagging ear of a burro from Texas-imported for his express companionship; to feed countless chickens and ducks; and to ignore only men . . ." Summing up his American experience, Stephens said: "If anyone gets fresh with you in America, particularly taxi drivers, you must say-holding up two fingers-'On your way, horseface...
...cartoonist. His work caught the eye of the Beaver, who took him over in 1943. Overnight, Giles won a huge following in wartime Britain, notably American soldiers, who liked his good-humored pot shots at their habits. At a time when Americans were monopolizing London taxis, Giles cartooned an American plane which had just crashed into a German house. Its crew, standing a few feet away, was shouting: "Taxi!" Another showed G.I.s hauling away Big Ben's clock on an Army truck while a grinning cockney remarked: "Rare boys for souvenirs, these Americans." Two years ago, on his first...