Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down went nine automobiles, one a $100,000 sports-car prototype hand-built in Turin for the Chrysler Corp. Down went 1,764 bags of mail, together with crates of antiques and cases of vintage wines. When the writhing sea was still, the Coast Guard cutter Evergreen dropped a temporary tombstone: a yellow marker buoy...
Besley threw down his glasses, called his wife. Together, they raced for their car in the basement garage, sped across the drive, hailed a motorcycle cop. When they arrived at the thicket ten minutes later, the man was gone. In the bushes, the cop found the body of Margaret Gallagher, a 50-year-old beauty-parlor operator. Her skull was crushed, her body half-stripped. Nearby lay her book, Ben-Hur. In it was a religious picture with an image of Christ on one side; on the other was printed "A Prayer for a Happy Death...
FORD CONTINENTAL SALES have eased to point where operations will be consolidated with Lincoln Division. Though Continental aims to hit 2,500-car target this year, company has decided to cut costs by combining all nonmanufacturing operations with Lincoln, and give Continental Boss William C. Ford...
Bail-Out. In Oakland, Calif., after an argument in their car which his wife was driving 35 m.p.h. down a deserted road, Edward Freitas announced, "I'm getting out right now," and did, was found unconscious by the road and hospitalized with broken ribs, a fractured elbow and head injuries...
Below the Belt. In Laramie, Wy., Mrs. Ralph Conwell got into the right side of her Chevrolet to wait for her husband, cinched up her new safety belt, tried in vain to reach the brake as the car rolled down the driveway, rammed a truck, jumped the curb, mowed down a lilac bush and crashed into the bedroom of the house next door...