Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stay. He flew 100 combat missions in the Korean War, later became a hot-shot test pilot. He had a passion for speed, on water, land or in the air: he took up powerboat racing, teamed up with Astronaut Gordon Cooper to buy a piece of a racing car entered in last year's Indianapolis...
When the President's limousine was spotted purring out of the gate one night, there was a suspicion that the owner was going out on the town-but nobody was sure. The car was later seen in Georgetown, and it was assumed that he had had dinner there. Again, nobody knew for sure. Betty Beale, the Washington Star's society columnist, had a real scoop when she disclosed, almost three weeks later, that the Johnsons had attended a dinner at the Averell Harrimans'-and that every-one had had a fine time. The Johnsons' place cards...
...final defense witness was Fred Black Jr., a partner in Baker's ill-starred vending-machine venture and himself under indictment for income tax evasion. Black told of sitting in a car with Kerr in Poteau, Okla., in late 1962: "Senator Kerr was concerned because he said he had advanced Mr. Baker $50,000 out of what he called 'cam- paign contributions,' and he would have to replenish it out of his own pocket if he couldn't pay." Baker had testified earlier that Kerr canceled the debt just before he died...
...intricate are Japan's election laws that a candidate for the Diet must wade through a 200-page paperback manual of dos and don'ts before he dares to make a speech. If he campaigns by car, he is limited to a "short, simple appeal" such as "Please vote for me." If he campaigns by sea or river, he is restricted to one boat. He may make only 60 speeches during the three-week campaign, no more than three of them on the radio. At his campaign headquarters he may serve nothing stronger than "tea and light cookies...
...idea occurred to her while covering the war as a freelancer in Viet Nam. Why not drive from Ca Mau, at the nation's southern tip, to the Demilitarized Zone in the north along 600 miles of ragged road and Viet Cong? In December she started out, her car sandbagged as a defense against land mines...