Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trujillo's end came in 1961 when four gunmen intercepted his car on a lonely road outside the capital and riddled him with shotgun and pistol fire. In the four years since, the Dominican Republic has suffered four coups and five changes of government, trying to find its way out of the political vacuum created by Trujillo's death. Democracy is still hardly more than a word in a land that has never known any law save force...
...idea one hot afternoon when he saw a pickup truck towing an indomitable water skier along a 6-ft.-wide irrigation ditch. He was working on a commercial adaptation of boatless skiing when a friend wrote to him about one that had already been developed by a Swiss trolley-car company, and Maxwell wrote at once to get the first U.S. franchise, which may soon put water skiing on a nationwide basis...
Called Pedalite, it is simply a bicycle pedal with a light inside, powered by flashlight batteries. It shines white to the front, red to the rear and to the side-tracing an eye-catching pattern of moving light in all three directions from which a car may come. Last year 69,100 bike riders were injured and 540 were killed by cars, and most of these accidents happened in dusk or darkness...
...larger corporations seem to attract the brassier corporate clowns. At Chrysler Corp's meeting in Detroit last week, President Lynn Townsend was forced to listen patiently while a stockholder complained that his Chrysler transmission had dropped out after only 2,000 miles and another beefed about a sticky car window. A.T. & T.'s 80th annual meeting in Philadelphia was interrupted by a woman who raced down the aisle in clown's costume to protest that Chairman Frederick R. Kappel had opened the meeting improperly. "Keep still long enough," barked Kappel, "and I'll answer your questions...
...dishwasher. Freedom turns out to mean long hours at low pay. While urging Julie to run away with him, he finds work at a parking lot where the boss teaches him the art of short-changing customers. At length Peter empties the cash register, jumps into a car, and goes...