Word: carly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor, began practicing medicine there in the '20s. A schoolteacher we knew there, rumored to have given aid and comfort to an Internal Revenue agent, went out one morning with his daughter; he sent her back to the house for their lunches, stepped on the starter of their car, and was blown all over Harlan County by the dynamite explosion...
...Abilene, Texas, police saw a car being driven backwards several blocks, stopped three Hardin-Simmons University coeds who said they had borrowed a boy friend's car, had driven it much farther than they had planned to. were now driving it in reverse to back some of the mileage off the speedometer...
Baby Sitter. In Kansas City, Mo., Harry Rosenthal pulled into a parking lot in his tiny foreign car (a B.M.W. Isetta with its only door across the front), turned the car over to an attendant, came back several hours later to find the man-who had no idea how to put it in reverse-still sitting in the car, its front end snug against the parking-lot wall...
...arrest. "As we drove away," one reported, "the officer who had arrested me turned around and hit me in the mouth. When we got to the corner and stopped for a traffic light, he turned around and hit me again." His companion, they alleged, was later beaten when the car stopped in an alley behind the police station...
...FREIGHT-CAR SHORTAGE is expected because "bad order ratio" (number of cars out of service because of a need for repairs), has risen above safe level of 5% to 8.6% national average. In some areas, such as the Allegheny region (which includes the Pennsylvania and B. & O. roads), the average...