Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read your fine Essay, "Why Cars Must-and Can-Be Made Safer" [April 1] on the day we won Senate passage of a historic tire safety bill. I congratulate you for a thorough analysis of this emotion-filled issue without repeating the cliché that a safe car would look like a Sherman tank. There is an awakening interest in this issue in both houses of Congress. A number of us will continue fighting for safe cars; we appreciate your help...
...Fords at the time of the crash, and the Porsche was in fourth place. The finish was a parade-Ford, Ford, Ford, Ford. The only really disappointed man on the team was Driver Dan Gurney, who set the pace until the 228th lap, then blew his engine, pushed his car across the finish line and was disqualified from second place. The winners: Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby, who shared driving honors in the No. 1 Ford, covered a record 1,185.6 miles at a record speed of 98.63 m.p.h...
...Light, The Baron, Henry Phyfe. Some of the situation comedies, such as Gilligan's Island and Corner Pyle, are apparently too bad to die, but a few of the most mindless, among them Mona McCluskey and The Smothers Brothers, ran out of gags-just as My Mother the Car has mercifully...
...wife, but she has just divorced him. His idea of wooing her back is to put a skeleton in her bed or to wire her boudoir with shattering hi-fi sound effects, hoping that her lover and husband-to-be may die of fright. He steals Leonie's car, nearly blows her mother to smithereens, finally has the poor girl kidnaped. After doing penance in jail, he turns up again at her dressy wedding reception in a monkey suit of real fur, beating his chest and uttering wild animal cries. Then-Well, at moments, Morgan! goes...
...sleep. The TV sits humming dumbly through a test pattern that testifies to a restless night. From a wastebasket Harper retrieves some sodden coffee grounds in a filter, brews and glumly drinks a stale, disgusting cupful. Moments later, he roars along the freeway in a rattletrap sports car that has one door and fender bumped out and prime-coated-this man has been in a few scrapes before...