Word: carly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rule of Thumb. In Niles, Mich., two teen-agers arrested for stealing a car explained to the municipal court judge that they borrowed it because hitchhiking is against...
Property Settlement. In Charlotte, N.C., after reporting his car stolen, George W. Atkins was arrested on bigamy charges when police found that the person who took the car was one of his two wives...
...engaged couple who were haled into court for committing "an act of lewd, obscene and disgusting nature such as to cause offense to diverse of Her Majesty's subjects." The couple's actual crime was nothing more than to kiss each other good night in a parked car. They spent their honeymoon money for their defense and were acquitted-but the judge refused to award them the costs of their defense. Similarly, last week American Actor Horace Marshall, who played God in the BBC-TV production of Green Pastures, was acquitted of living off the earnings...
...lucky break in the traffic has saved him from having to abandon his 1952 De Soto and walk the rest of the way home. On Saturdays Abe was not on duty, but sometimes, to follow up on one of the cases he had been observing, he would leave his car in the garage and walk five miles to the hospital and back...
...auto industry showed no signs of braking. May sales rose to an estimated 520,000 or about 4% above April. Despite a tapering-off from April, Detroit poured out 545,000 new cars in May, building up stocks in case of a steel strike. The industry estimated that cars in dealers' hands rose to 900,000, highest in three years, but carmakers did not seem worried so long as sales were still climbing. They plan no major cutback in production until the end of July. The good performance so far this year-some experts predict...