Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foch, scarcely noticing the motorbike ahead of him or the blue van behind. He slowed to ease around another van that was double parked. The cyclist then stopped, hopped off his bike and walked back waving a pistol. Men sprang from the parked van and pulled Denis from the car. The last thing the chauffeur saw was the Peugeot moving off with his boss in the back, imprisoned by men on either side...
...Volkswagen Beetle started out as the car that nobody wanted to build. Ferdinand Porsche, who designed it, dreamed from the early 1920s of a "people's car" that would provide the kind of cheap transportation that Henry Ford's flivvers gave the U.S. Even after Adolf Hitler came to power and ordered automakers to produce a small car, Porsche's plans for his slope-nosed oddity got nowhere. Not until 1938, when Hitler made tt a state project did the Volkswagen become a reality-just in time to be modified into a Jeep-like military vehicle...
...city was coming to life. The first car whooshed unchallenged by any traffic down Mass. Ave, at 4 a.m., and the newspaper bails were thrown out onto the sidewalks. People began emerging from the subways like sudden shadows, and like some collective incarnate, the city stoked its fires and started to roll...
...heads--marches relentlessly back to the sea. Gone are the days when a lawn sprinkler and a fish bowl sufficed to adequately furnish a home with aquatic appliances. In recent months advertisements for a $1200 bathtub have been catching the eye of readers of national magazines. California--birthplace of car customizing, the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Jerry Brown--now offers what may prove to be the new wave of America's vassergeist: California Hot Tubbing...
...elaborate somewhat, Thomas Stefanian decided 20 years ago that there was no future in the used car business. So he sold "Honest Tom's," his Cambridge dealership, and moved into his new digs on Mount Auburn...