Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco, the explosion was touched off when a policeman killed a 16-year-old boy who was fleeing from a stolen car. Adult Negro leaders tried courageously to calm youthful rioters, but quickly learned that, as one of them said, "The kids wouldn't buy it." With admirable alacrity, Mayor John...
...thought could, in fact, do just about anything-even provide the inspiration for the design of a new automobile. According to a Peking report, six "pacesetters" in an auto factory in Changchum, 350 miles northeast of Peking, testified that they "started from scratch" to produce a new car, with Mao's thought as the "guiding principle." What they aspired to, they proudly proclaimed, "was proletarian art, not an imitation of foreign models...
...strength of it, Bernard Gimbel took another chance. In 1923 he negotiated with Horace A. Saks to buy Saks's 34th Street store as well as the Fifth Avenue site where Saks was planning an uptown store. The negotiations took place partly in a railroad baggage car, where the two men sat atop an empty coffin and talked business. Saks's Cadillac-class merchandise now accounts for half of Gimbel Bros.' earnings...
...Mayor Lindsay, notfiied of the demonstration, flew by police helicopter from the Wall Street heliport to an airfield in Brooklyn. A few minutes later his black sedan drew up behind the crowd of shouting protestors. As he stepped out of the car and was recognized, there was sudden silence...
Behind the scenes, Lindsay has taken further steps to bring the far-away government closer to where the action is. In his office and in his car, direct lines keep him in touch with the Police Department. And a police helicopter is available 24 hours a day to carry him to the scene of any disturbance within 20 minutes (in a few that will cut the time in half). weeks he will have a jet helicopter...