Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Follow That Car. Correspondents got no briefings before the Kremlin visits, and no comment afterwards. They haunted the embassy entrances, set out in hot pursuit whenever a bigwig drove away, trailed the envoys to every lunch and dinner date. Arriving at the British embassy after one tiring encounter with Molotov, Ambassador Smith, usually an even-tempered man, snapped irritably: "You just sit here. I'll tell you everything." Then he told the newsmen nothing...
...Cars. The auto industry rolled out its 100-millionth car (the Duryea brothers built their first one in 1893). Because of suppliers' strikes, production last week was down to 102,368 cars and trucks, off 3,548 from the week before...
...judge" had planned the accident himself, and used his own car to stage it. He had arranged for someone to drive, and for someone else to get hit. He had even sent out an ambulance to pick up the victim. His Honor, Professor Charles W. Joiner of the University of Michigan's law school, thought he had found a perfect way to get a practical lesson into his students' mock courtroom trials...
...rounded up about a dozen dramatics students to act out the accident, and he had taken motion pictures of it from four different angles. For one sequence, the camera was behind the driver's seat, as the car moved down Ann Arbor's Monroe Street, sideswiping a pedestrian who stepped out from behind a parked car. The other shots showed what witnesses would have seen from the sidewalks. For the trial, the driver and witnesses saw only the sequences that applied to them. The student lawyers had to prepare their briefs without seeing the movies...
...witnesses disagreed on how fast the car was going, and how much attention the driver was paying to the road (he had been shown waving to friends). Donaldson's lawyer got a girl witness so mixed up during cross-examination that she began sobbing "I don't know" to questions she had already answered with assurance. Driver Donaldson's mind went completely blank when he finally reached the witness stand, and he wasn't playacting. Said the professor: "A perfect example of retrograde amnesia...