Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anthony Kiritsis, 44, a former car salesman, held a loan-company official with a shotgun harnessed to the victim's neck for 63 hours, demanded cancellation of a mortgage. Result: he gave up after immunity was promised; immunity was not granted...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt raced through the streets in an open touring car on his way to someplace else, and in 1952 Harry Truman actually stopped off to campaign for Adlai Stevenson. But nothing like this had ever happened before to Clinton, Mass., and the residents of the old factory town 36 miles west of Boston were doing their best to get ready for the momentous day. They swept the streets, hosed down the red brick storefronts, and slapped a coat of paint on the interior of the town hall, where the great event would take place...
...copier is the principal accomplice of the pushbutton counterfeiters, to find a way to make their machines less perfect as partners in crime. But the company is hesitant. "After all," says a spokesman, "you don't hold GM responsible just because a Chevrolet is used as the getaway car in a bank robbery...
...University requested the variance to allow the building's construction in the MBTA car yards on Boylston St. without a 50-foot gap between the building edge and the property boundary. Otherwise, the building would interfere with MBTA operations and a Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) sewer line that cuts through the proposed site, Moulton said...
Weiger now boasts that with its new product balance, Midas-International can hardly lose whether the economy goes up or down. If times are hard, he says, people fix up their old cars and replace the mufflers. If the economy booms, so do sales of Chopped Vans. Still, Weiger is not satisfied. "We see the ordinary customer only a couple of years after he buys his car," he laments. "That's not soon enough. We'd like to sell him shock absorbers and other things." The company is now also operating three self-service gas stations. The Midas...