Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COME LIVE WITH ME. A comedy by Lee Minoff and Stanley Price stars Jack Car ter as a divorced American screenwriter in London. The farcical entanglements start when a Danish au pair girl moves in and his ex-wife visits. Westport...
Police chased the car until it crashed into a telephone pole. The driver, Willie James Lamar, 21, a Negro, jumped out, was found moments later hiding in a thicket. Charlie Lee Hopkins, also 21 and Negro, was arrested three hours later and, along with Lamar, booked for murder...
...major impetus for this Draconian doctrine traces back to 1911 when an upstate New York gravestone dealer named Donald MacPherson was driving his new Buick at 15 m.p.h. A wheel flew off, the car flipped, and MacPherson wound up in the hospital. He sued the Buick Co. for negligence in failing to inspect the defective wheel. Buick raised what was then a plausible defense: it had never sold MacPherson anything directly, since he bought from a dealer. Therefore, said Buick, it could not be held liable to MacPherson for negligence...
...never applied until recently to normal sales transactions. Now it is being rapidly extended to cover the sale of almost any product that has some potential danger-from roller skates to airplanes. A key precedent in this process occurred in 1960 after a New Jersey driver slammed his new car into a brick wall, apparently because the steering wheel was defective. Even though the trial judge was unable to find evidence of negligence by either manufacturer or driver, he held the manufacturer liable for breach of an "implied warranty" that the steering wheel was safe. The New Jersey Supreme Court...
...every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, in a state of weightlessness, without gravity to anchor the man, an astronaut attempting to put together a space station while in orbit could not hope to use anything as simple as the big wrench with which a car driver changes tires. Every time he tried to exert pressure on nut or bolt, he would turn in the opposite direction. Martin's new tool, which will be tested on later Gemini flights, is designed to eliminate such reaction almost entirely. The spaceman's wrench, 10½ in. long...