Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood last October devouring grass and tree bark; a college student went berserk on an airliner bound from Los Angeles to San Francisco, tried to force his way into the pilot's cockpit before being subdued, a young male user in Los Angeles tried to stop a car on Wilshire Boulevard by saying "Halt," was hit and killed...
Some curbstone quipster uttered the inevitable gag: "It must have been a Republican who complained." Still, it was awfully apt, as two blue-uniformed New York policemen piled out of a prowl car in front of Philanthropist Mary Lasker's Beekman Place town house at 1:05 in the morning. The complainant was an unidentified neighbor lady, whatever her politics, and she was finding it kind of hard to sleep, what with Dutch Adler's rhythms blaring from the open windows and most of the 110 partygoers thunderously doing all those modern dances. "Would you close a couple...
...Molotov cocktail arced through the darkness. But the facts of the Deadwyler case-demonstrated to all through the dumb, impartial TV eye-carried conviction. Negro witnesses contradicted one another repeatedly, offering little to back up Mrs. Barbara Deadwyler's story that Bova had stuck his revolver through the car window to shoot her husband deliberately. One swore that the shot was fired from a moving police car; others divided on the crucial point as to whether the Deadwyler car had lurched forward after it stopped, as Bova said it had done, and caused the investigating policeman to fire...
...police, on the other hand, presented a painstaking and cohesive case. The 1957 Buick they claimed had led them on an 80-m.p.h. chase was tested on a treadmill to prove it was still capable of such high speeds; a similar car was used to re-enact the shooting for photographic exhibits. A ballistics expert testified that gunpowder burns on the victim's shirt proved the gun had been fired inside the car, and a physiologist was brought in to verify that a man thrown off balance would tend to make a reflexive clutching movement that could pull...
Police Inspector John Powers, however, indirectly chided Bova for not following the rulebook when he put his revolver-and the whole upper part of his body-inside a suspicious car. Said he: "When an officer sticks his head in the door of the car, he stands the chance of either being shot or struck by the suspect in the vehicle. He places himself at a disadvantage...