Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Usual." If Smith is not exactly running scared, he is at least traveling concerned. He has hired a publicity man. He is appearing at local events such as the recent Purcellville Volunteer Fire Department carnival parade, which he threatened to leave unless given a seat in the lead car. He got his way. And he is dropping in on teas and barbecues. At one such gathering last week, Smith sipped ice water and gave his usual folksy, good-humored pitch. "I have no speech," he told 25 people in a mosquito-ridden Alexandria backyard. "I'm going to conduct...
Three days later, the Tunku (from Kuala Lumpur) announced that the missing Tun had been turned in. In Canberra, the protocol chieftain explained that "a good Samaritan" had brought him back in a car from Sydney, 200 miles away, after a ten-day absence. The mysterious Samaritan was said to have found the envoy, ill and vomiting, wandering in Sydney shortly after he disappeared, cared for him during the next eight days, and conveniently discovered who he was for the first time on the ninth...
...have put some 300 relics back into mint condition and occasional service. The revival started in Maine back in 1939. For old times' sake, three Bostonians rode up to Biddeford one Fourth of July to be aboard the last run of the Biddeford & Saco Street Railroad's Car 31. At the end of the line, they spontaneously passed the hat among the passengers, added enough of their own money to make $250, and bought the car at the price it would have brought for scrap. They moved it into some pasture land in nearby Kennebunkport, and thus began...
...Museum in East Haven, Conn., got going in 1947, when New Haven decided to abandon trolleys. A handful of enthusiasts saw a chance to take over 1½ miles of the Branford line. Today Branford ranks as the second largest trolley trove in the country, is stocked with 75 cars, ranging from a John Stephenson horsecar, vintage 1893, to a wicker-chaired private parlor car in mint condition...
...many readers do know the difference that Hot Rod has the distinction of being the most dog-eared magazine in the U.S. More than twelve car buffs pore over each copy, reports W. R. Simmons research company, which conducts readership studies for magazine publishers. Petersen's Motor Trend (monthly circ. 500,000) is not far behind, with 9.02 readers per copy. A sort of high-power consumer magazine, it "is for the average fellow with an above-average interest in autos," says Petersen. Car Craft, Rod & Custom, and Sports Car Graphic cover the other auto buffs Petersen could think...