Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mayor Sullivan, however, attacked the scheme on the grounds that car-owners would violate the alternate-side regulations just as they violate the present over-night parking restrictions. Vellucci's plan, he said, "would only take the cars out of the garages and parking lots and throw them onto the streets...
...English, the French trust neither their government nor each other to exercise self-restraint. Gas stations were instantly besieged by vociferous motorists bent on getting their tanks filled with gas and also the gallon cans they brought along. When the government banned the sale of gas except directly into car tanks, they bought rubber tubes, siphoned the gas out of the tanks into home containers, then rushed back to the gas pumps for more...
...past three weeks U.P. Veteran Jones has received "dozens and dozens" of similar messages. They have been slipped under his dinner plate, tucked into his car, pressed into his hand on the street. "Sometimes," he wrote last week, "they want you to get word to relatives in America. Or perhaps it's just a message to everybody in the U.S." To Jones they have become a symbol of his own "continuous feeling of inadequacy, both as an American and a reporter who helplessly watched the murder of an entire people...
...electronic toys, lifting ideas from the world of automation and guided missiles, are bound to dazzle adults as well as children. Among the startlers: "The Brain" ($11.95), a missile-shooting, robot-manned car with an electronic circuit built into the robot's head, put out by St. Louis' Jay V. Zimmerman Co., and remote-controlled buses and boats imported from Japan. "The Brain" can be preset to scoot about, turn and dodge on its preordered course, and fire its plastic missiles automatically. The buses and boats can be started, stopped and turned right or left by radio signals...
Flee Now ... In Santa Fe. N.M., after two convicts kidnaped him, hijacked his auto, escaped from prison and put 450 miles on the car before getting caught, Penitentiary Guard Jose A. Vigil billed the state for their jaunt at 8? a mile, faced having to pay the tab himself after the attorney general's office stated that the car had been used "on an un authorized trip...