Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Computerized operations for large departments, which would vastly increase the speed with which a telephoned alarm can be processed at headquarters and flashed to the squad car closest to the scene...
...Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, to permit the Constituent Assembly's election. The Viet Cong put some pressures on the new delegates, threatening to kill them all. One deputy, Tran Van Van, was assassinated; another, Dr. Phan Quang Dan, narrowly escaped death when his car was booby-trapped...
...defection, it became clear that it was a long-considered and well-planned move. Svetlana was not getting along with the leaders of the Kremlin, who have taken a special interest in her since her father's death. They provided her with a flat in Moscow, a car and a dacha in the country. Then a year ago, Svetlana married her third husband, Indian Communist Brajesh Singh, whom she had met in Moscow. For unknown reasons, the Kremlin opposed the marriage but reluctantly allowed it to take place. After that, the Soviet government took away many of Svetlana...
...engineering students at the University of Detroit admitted that they were "too chicken" to call up General Motors themselves. So they contacted the Detroit Free Press's troubleshooting "Action Line" to ask if the paper might be able to arrange a G.M. courtesy car for their guest speaker to use for a couple of days. Sure, said G.M., when the paper called. The company rolled out a 1967 Chevy with shoulder harnesses, head braces, disc brakes, emergency flasher switch, freeway lane-changer signal, padded instrument panel and energy-absorbing steering column. It remained to be seen whether all that...
...seasoned searchers, the antagonism of a landowner is almost as sure a tip-off as a sudden hum from his detector. "When I ask a farmer if we can dig on his land and he says yes, I don't even take the detector out of the car," says Dickey. "But if he says, 'Hell, no,' then I know the place is loaded...