Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day in Budapest, Barber made the mistake of violating a rule he had set for himself: no travel at night. With the London Daily Express' Sefton Delmer and an interpreter, he set out to tour the city. Russian machine gunners opened up on the car, almost cut it in two, crumpled...
...Take a Picture for Me." Meantime correspondents were building up pressure at the Nickelsdorf frontier barrier. First to get through was the Daily Express' Sydney Smith. When the guards lifted the barrier for another purpose, Smith gunned his poised car, shot past them and, despite their shouts to halt, lit out for Budapest. Next day other newsmen persuaded the guards to let them through in cars and as hitchhikers on Hungarian army trucks. In Budapest they set up shop in the Duna Hotel, a dingy fleabag on the Danube. There they got a shaky warning from the New York...
...Mindszenty's rescuers whisked him to a nearby military barracks, where everyone broke out wine to celebrate his release. Early the next morning three armored vehicles escorted the cardinal over the battle-torn road to Budapest. In towns and villages along the way, people threw flowers before his car. The new Nagy government declared that the cardinal's trial and imprisonment had been entirely illegal, that his ecclesiastical rights as Primate of Hungary were restored. Before a cheering crowd at his palace, Mindszenty appeared, a small Hungarian tricolor pinned to his cassock. His ordeal had left his face...
Guest Stir. In Dallas, Jailbird Bobby Calhoun showed up masked on Confession, a local TV show, complained that he could not go straight because "police pick me up every time they see me," was arrested five days later when cops searched the trunk of his car, found part of a stolen safe...
...Knows ... In Wahoo, Neb., when his wife spotted a wild blue goose flying by their house. Bill Behrens honked hopefully at it, found the bird liked his voice, held it in conversation while his wife got his shotgun, heeded her warning against hunting inside city limits, got in his car, kept honking as he drove slowly into open country, got out, honked again, blitzed the beguiled goose...