Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policeman took after her in his patrol car, chased her about a mile, finally slowed down as his speedometer indicated 100 m.p.h. Just then he saw the Chevrolet start to weave back and forth across the three southbound lanes of the parkway. On one wild weave to the right it smashed into the rear of a Thunderbird convertible hugging the curbside, shattered it. The Thunderbird's driver, 47-year-old Richard Sperling, a Connecticut laundry manager and father of two, died instantly. The Chevrolet swerved onto a shoulder, rolled over four times. Christine was only dazed when...
...inhabitants of the island. Five days before Christmas, he set off celebrations in Nicosia by releasing from detention camps 89 men and 11 women accused of supporting EOKA, the Greek-Cypriot rebel force. Where his predecessor, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, commonly moved about in a heavily escorted bulletproof car. Sir Hugh toured the island's villages on horseback, stopping off in coffee houses for chats with amazed farmers...
...Hollywood, during a brief slip into the meandering footprints of his late convivial father, Actor John Barrymore Jr., 25, was nabbed for being drunk and disturbing the peace at 1 a.m. while tiffing with wife Cara in his parked car. He drew a $100 fine and a 90-day jail stretch that was suspended provided he spends his next three weekends in jail. Said Junior later: "I tried some rum concoctions and they tasted like punch. They didn't act that way. I'm through with liquor...
...Wall Street, wealthy Win Smith (his partner's-cut of the profits in 1956 was more than $150,000) is still a calm, friendly, unpretentious man. Each weekday he travels from his Manhattan apartment on East 72nd Street to his Wall Street office in a four-man car pool. He stays at his desk seven to ten hours a day, takes work home two or three nights a week. He relaxes on weekends at his 118-acre Connecticut farm near Litchfield by driving a tractor or romping with his seven-year-old son (a son by his first marriage...
Extended Test. In Lancaster, N.Y., George G. Morgan, 31, held on a vagrancy charge after driving 8,000 miles in a car taken from a Victoria, Texas auto dealer, protested: "The salesman told me to take her out for a trial spin, but he didn...