Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...streets and across the great bridges that span the East River between Manhattan and the other boroughs. Secretaries hiked 50 blocks to work; men felt the twinge of leg muscles long unused. People took to motor scooters, bicycles and, in at least one case, a horse. Many drove their cars into the city-too many. Though most of them generously picked up neighbors or strangers along the way, they often wound up stalled together for hours in massive traffic jams that surpassed anything that even car-glutted New York had ever seen...
...years ago, three East Berlin students donned homemade Russian uniforms, doctored a car to look like a Soviet military sedan and calmly drove through a checkpoint in the Communist Wall, unchallenged by the border guards. The story of the ingenious escape obviously got around, for last week West Berliners were chuckling over a similar stunt pulled off a fortnight ago with the help of American uniforms...
...pharmacist. Then, after dark, the three drove to a wooded area, where Karl-Heinz broke out a bundle of stolen U.S. army gear. Within minutes, the two men were dressed as a couple of casual G.I.s, and the girl was hidden in the trunk. Finally, Karl-Heinz replaced the car's West Berlin license tags with U.S. military plates, and headed for Checkpoint Charlie, where uniformed Western servicemen can drive in and out without Communist inspection. It worked like a charm. As the car was waved through to West Berlin, neither the passengers nor the East German Grepo noticed...
Less successful was the car that on Christmas night swerved out of a line of vehicles at another checkpoint, tried to crash the barrier pole. Communist guards, their marksmanship enhanced by the lights on a 20-ft.-high Christmas tree they had cynically erected near the Wall, opened fire. Horst Schöneberger, 24, of Dortmund, West Germany, was wounded and hauled away with two East German girls in the car (the Reds sentenced him to twelve years at hard labor). The driver, Horst's brother Heinz, 27, sprinted for the boundary 15 feet away. Just...
...slur on my firm!" cried Herbert Hill. "We will get Mr. Wilson by the ears before long." It took more than a year, but Hill's Hardy Spicer, Ltd., car-parts manufacturing company in Birmingham, did at least get Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 49, by the tongue a bit. Wilson's counsel appeared in London's High Court of Justice to deliver a handsome apology from the Prime Minister after he was charged with "libeling and slandering" Hill during the 1964 general elections campaign by suggesting that the Hardy Spicer management had fomented...