Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meantime, Nwall returned home, only to find the man waiting in his room. Nwall told police that the man pointed a gun at him and forced him out into a parked car on Oxford St. Nwall reportedly was driven to a Back Bay apartment where he was held captive until Tuesday and then released...
Battling the Bugs. Barring accidents, of course. In 54 years, 30 drivers have lost their lives racing at Indianapolis, and it will be a long time before anybody forgets last year's flaming, seven-car crash that killed Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald. All sorts of new safety rules are in effect. Cars must be equipped with rubber sealers in their gas tanks, and drivers must make at least two stops for fuel-to keep pit crews from filling tanks to the brim, thereby increasing the danger of collision or fire. But as speeds soar at Indy...
...Veteran Parnelli Jones, who won the 500 in 1963, was badly shaken up in a similar accident: he was drifting through the northwest turn at 150 m.p.h. when the suspension of his Lotus collapsed. "All of a sudden the back end started steering the front," Parnelli shuddered later. The car slammed into the wall, slid 570 ft., spun, slid again, and finally came to rest 110 ft. onto the infield grass...
...they did at Cornell and Columbia. Deans Watson and Monro and University Police Chief Robert Tonis had met earlier to discuss the potential disturbance and were on hand for the big event. The Cambridge Police lurked in the parking lot, as did two men in a plain, unmarked car, whom the CRIMSON decided (2-1 with one abstention) were from...
...disappointed his parents by not turning immediately to college. Instead, as he told a recent graduating class at Johnson City High, he "headed West to seek the fame and fortune that I knew America offered." Less grandly, that meant that he and a few buddies piled into a rattletrap car early one morning and stole away to California. Twenty months later, totally broke, he hitchhiked home, worked on a road gang under a searing sun for a dollar a day. His mother kept drumming college into his head, and Lyndon finally conceded that "I'd rather use my head...