Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every time Detroit makes cars [May 20] that are too long, too big, and too expensive, car sales drop, and we have to listen to theories about the "sagging economy" and "tight money." I wish the manufacturers would get out of those smoke-filled rooms and ask me how to run the auto business. What most of us want is a small, good-looking, economical car, as demonstrated by our eagerness to buy the compacts. Since they've made those bigger and bigger, we've stopped buying them. I notice Mustang sales haven't dropped...
...courthouse and the hearings were televised, Los Angeles heard two dramatically different stories. Mrs. Barbara Deadwyler, seven months pregnant, testified that her husband was hurrying her to the hospital after she began having labor pains, which, it turned out, were false. When Deadwyler noticed a pursuing patrol car, he voluntarily pulled over to let it escort them. Officer Bova, according to her testimony, put his service revolver through the passenger window and pulled the trigger, shooting Deadwyler in the stomach. He then turned impassively away. Four Negro witnesses agreed with her that the car had come to a full stop...
...police told a different story-of a wild 40-block chase at 80 m.p.h. and an apparently drunken driver who stepped on the gas just as the investigating officer reached in the window. Taking the stand in his own behalf, Bova, 23, said that the car "gave a sudden lurch forward. My feet were knocked out from under me. I recall making a grab to get my balance. At this time, my revolver was unintentionally fired...
Shoveling Sand. Mostly, the case underlines the fact that in Watts today a white policeman still feels compelled to approach a Negro's car with a leveled gun. Though federal agencies have allotted it $16 million since the riots -and only last week announced a $2,700,000 grant to break its isolation with better bus service-so far, said a federal official, it has done little more than "shovel sand against the tide...
...California State College at Los Angeles, blew up. He crushed the letter into a ball, jammed it into his pocket and stamped out of the house. His mother shouted after him, "Be careful, Gary! Don't do anything rash." Furious, he climbed into his Volkswagen, rocketed the little car around the block a couple of times until he had calmed down slightly, then roared off to his draft board office to spill his spleen. "I was upset," he recalls. "And mad. And depressed...