Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he did leave the hall, about 50 white and Negro students mobbed and rocked his car-with a frightened Wallace inside. No one was hurt, but the protesters dented the car roof and broke off the antenna. Wallace had gone to New Hampshire to drum up publicity for his third-party presidential candidacy, which he hopes to advance in that state's Democratic primary next year. The unruly reception at Dartmouth, besides violating his right to be heard and that of others to listen, only played into his hands by gaining him far more attention than his stock...
...sent formal apologies, and the general feeling around the campus next day was one of sheepish embarrassment. It is impossible to embarrass Wallace. He described the demonstrators as pacifists who "don't want to fight the Viet Cong but sure can fight the police" and, alluding to the car-rocking episode, said the students were "expressing academic freedom-and academic freedom can get you killed...
...early afternoon, the King got in his car and drove to the Defense Ministry in Athens, which was the coup's command post and was filled with all manner of prisoners, heavily armed junior officers and the ranking military men of Greece. The King confronted the leaders of the coup. "You are going to get three orders," he told them. "The first order: I want Arnaoutis brought here. Get him! The second order: Get Kanellopoulos and bring him here. The third order: I want to speak to the generals alone...
...during the first three months of 1967, jumped sharply in April to a level only 3.4% below their year-earlier pace. "The spring upturn we've been waiting for is with us," says Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend, who now predicts that a minimum of 8,200,000 new-car sales will turn 1967 into the third best year in the industry's history. He adds: "People seem to have decided there isn't going to be a recession after...
Second Collision. The loan extension will give A.M.C.'s new Javelin specialty car room to go into production this fall. Still, some auto-industry financial men fear that Chapin and his colleagues are only painting themselves into a corner. Should Kelvinator go the way of Redisco, A.M.C. may well lose a chance at a Studebaker-style recovery. After losing $25 million on its auto operations, Studebaker shut down its South Bend, Ind., plants in 1963, has since come back as a profitable maker of appliances, electric generators and other products. Wall Street has been full of speculation about possible...