Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lets him stand unattended for five minutes; the white taxi driver who doesn't see him trying to flag a cab; the teacher who doesn't go out of his way to help a colored child; the service-station attendant who services everyone else's car before he gets around to the Negro's. The goal of reform should be fair treatment of everyone by everyone else, not simple unprejudiced treatment by a color-blind law. And this goal of voluntary equal treatment is national. TIME oversimplifies; the South participates in efforts to reach this goal...
...crowd of several hundred including a school of shells on the Charles watched police struggle for two tours to dredge the car from the river. Two police scuba divers finally attached a tow hook to the submerged automobile and dragged it from the river up the bank of the Charles...
There was something of the leaping lamb and the bounding colt in Christopher that first year. Not only did he hurdle car hoods (including a slow-moving cab one time in the Square), but he also leaped over whole rows of parking meting. On the way to dinner in the Union, regularly did a bow-legged straddle hop ever the chest-high obelisk in front Boylston Hall...
Died. Sydney Allard, 55, British sports-car manufacturer, the first to fit high-performance U.S. engines to rugged, road-holding British bodies, turning out a succession of highly prized Cadillac-Allards, Chrysler-Allards and Ford-Allards (in which he won the grueling 3,300-km. Monte Carlo Rally in 1952); of cancer; in Esher, England...
...Surrounded by six children, whom he saw only once a day "for ten, I hope awe-inspiring minutes," he lived in an 18th century country house 140 miles from London, where tie played the rural squire with a conservatism that soon became simply amniotic. He refused to drive a car, rarely answered the phone, harrumphed indignantly that the Times of London had gone bolshie, appeared in public with an ear trumpet two feet long, and took savage pleasure in annoying Americans-"Erie Stanley Gardner," he announced sweetly to one visitor, "is the finest living American author...