Word: bumpered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York State has no plans to build it, the design has such features as four-wheel drive for maximum traction and resistance to skidding, an all-window defrosting system, four roll bars, a "driver's periscope" affording wide-angle rear-view visibility, and a hydraulic, energy-absorbing bumper that extends forward one foot when the car speeds beyond 37 m.p.h. The tanklike car is supposed to protect passengers against injuries in front and rear collisions up to 50 m.p.h., side bashes up to 40 m.p.h., and rollovers up to 70 m.p.h...
Mary Poppins was never a junkie, no matter what the bumper stickers said, but it does seem that she will soon become a divorcee. Confirming longstanding rumors, Julie Andrews, 32, filed suit in Santa Monica, Calif., for divorce from English Stage Designer Tony Walton, 33, her husband since 1959. In a formal statement more notable for brevity than syntax, Julie explained that "the varying demands of our careers have kept Tony and I apart, placing obvious strains upon our marriage." Another obvious strain, Director (The Pink Panther) Blake Edwards, 45, has recently acquired his own divorce, and will presumably...
...skeleton staff of 3,000 that usually mans the Pentagon on Saturdays had been sharply pared by orders to all personnel to stay home unless their presence was absolutely necessary. In the four underground tunnels that normally service buses and taxis, vehicles of the First Army were parked bumper to bumper, the front rank draped in beige cloth to conceal their identity. As military policemen filled four olive-drab flamethrowers with tear gas, a dollop of the reeking riot queller spilled and gas masks were donned until it cleared. The troops were the first committed in metropolitan Washington for crowd...
...Clock," dating from 1955, is correctly the dean of the triple century, weighing in inconspicuously at No. 74. The single true vein among the mounds of pyrite will come along around 6:30 tonight. Numbers 246 to 253 include the only two songs from 1959, two from '58's bumper crop, and four of the five that rate from the '57 vintage. This gold mine is preceded by one half of the 1961 total and one of the four '60 discs on the list. When Tom Jones follows the Diamonds "Little Darlin," however, you know that the deluge of modernity...
...operate in Cleveland. Negro and white volunteers flocked to his support, forming an active core of 3,000 workers in ten branch offices throughout the city. Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King traveled to Cleveland to campaign for him. All told, Stokes's volunteers distributed 60,000 bumper stickers (to Locher's 14,000), passed out another 60,000 door knob notices...