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...attempt to reveal the frustration of an escaped convict unable to trap the killer who has framed him becomes lost in a maze of bewildering side issues and incredible coincidences. Taxi drivers, plastic surgeons, small time grifters, and Lauren Bacall flit through the story in a circus parade of confusion that subordinates the basic theme to the point of obscurity. There seems no attempt to produce a graceful transition from seene to seene. Each skit drops down out of thin air, rumbles along to its maximum dramatic intensity, and then slowly sinks over the horizon...
...performed miracles of political acrobatics. But New Yorkers had grown to think of him not so much as a political force but as a manifestation of sound and movement-shrill, vehement, energetic and cacophonous, as oddly comforting as the roar of the subway and the bleat of taxi horns...
Shanghai's 20,000 dancing girls were desperate. By Oct. 1, said the Central Government's decree, their feet must be still, their dance halls locked and dark. Like shark fins, sea slugs, imported brandy, birthday parties (except for men over 60) and wedding presents, taxi-dancing was a luxury too frivolous for China's new austerity. The girls, whose average annual salary is $4,500,000 CN ($112 U.S.), fought to keep the party going...
Helicopter Cab. The Yellow Cab Co. of Cleveland got the first franchise for a regular scheduled helicopter taxi service. (Several charter taxi services are already operating.) Yellow Cab's projected helicopter runs will be between Cleveland Municipal Airport, downtown Cleveland and two suburban areas...
...With earnings dropping sharply from wartime peaks, New York's taxi owners resolved to ask their irascible drivers to shave more often, dress better, and substitute a smile for the wartime snarl...