Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hidden check points are placed strategically along the route to penalize those who violate the assigned speed or who otherwise break the law. At the end, speedometers are checked and the car which has covered a distance nearest that of the specified course at a speed closest to the assigned speed is declared winner...
...system enables the police to ascertain readily the owner of any out-of-state car which is parked suspiciously near the Harvard area. The police have always been able to look up the owners of Massachusetts cars...
Meanwhile, signs of panic appeared in the student body. As a result of a warning that each student who has registered a car will have to state the location of his overnight parking facility on a questionnaire by Nov. 19, the University's lots were completely filled two days after upperclass registration. Last year they took a month to fill...
FORMER RAILROADER Buck Dumaine, who was ousted two years ago as president of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (TIME, April 26, 1954), is going into new form of transportation. With group of Boston backers, Dumaine has picked up Richard S. Robie's Avis Rent-A-Car System, with 1,044 locations in U.S. and abroad and gross of $35 million a year...
Game Refuge. In West Warwick, R.I., John Ondrasek Jr. drove his wife out of the house with a shoe, chased her into a neighbor's yard where she crawled under a car, drummed on the auto's fender with the shoe to Hush her out, recalled too late that the neighbor, who collared him for local police, was a state trooper...