Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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J.F.K. House. In another ugly confrontation, at a police and National Guard roadblock, 21 bullets were sprayed into a car driven by a Negro named Henry Townes, 22. Townes's 16-year-old wife, their seven-month-old baby and her four-year-old son by a previous marriage were all wounded, and a National Guard captain was hit by a ricocheting bullet...
...well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley stormed, "as try to stop our Protestant cause." When Queen Elizabeth arrived in Belfast this month to dedicate a bridge, embittered Catholics promised retaliation; and sure enough, a twelve-pound chunk of concrete came crashing down on her car from a fourth-floor window on her parade route, luckily only denting the hood...
Motorcycle injuries have become so numerous that emergency-room doctors and trauma surgeons now rate them as epidemic, and they are, on the average, far more devastating than those that result from car crashes. "If you have your seat belt fastened and drive into a stone wall at 15 m.p.h.," says O'Donnell, "the car will be a mess but there won't be much damage to you. If you do that on a motorcycle, you get thrown against the brick wall, which is ruinous to flesh and bone." Since the rider is usually projected headfirst, like...
When the case came to trial, it seemed a routine personal-injury suit. It took on a new aspect when Budner cited a state law that requires all new Wisconsin cars to be equipped with two seat belts. Though her new car was duly belted, Mrs. Busick herself was admittedly unbelted at the time of the accident. As a result, the judge instructed the jury to consider whether Mrs. Busick was guilty of contributory negligence by virtue of having ignored a handy safety device that might have prevented her injuries...
Though its 25,000-car annual turnout is dwarfed by the 890,000 cars produced under British Motors' five current makes (Austin, Morris, MG, Riley and Wolseley), Jaguar will give B.M.C. needed strength in the luxury market. To make the most of its new ability to sell to every pocketbook, British Motors plans to increase overall output by 1970 to 1,500,000, about what Germany's Volkswagen, the present European leader, already produces...