Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double Take. In Rome, police looked for the thief who drove off in Gustavo Zontini's car when he parked it outside the station house to report that someone had stolen his groceries from the back seat...
Prospecting in San Francisco for California's June 5 primary. Stevenson stood on the kitchen balcony in the apartment of an unemployed Negro and spoke to a crowd in a parking lot. He perched on the rear platform of a cable car and shouted: "You have more happiness and gaiety here than any place in the world." He teetered on the concrete border of a Union Square flower bed and praised "one of the greatest civilizations of the world, here on the rim of the Pacific by the Golden Gate." He shook hands in a mixed Negro and Japanese...
Last week, after the French formally transferred police powers to Moroccan authority, vengeance began. As the former Caid Omar Sektani and his secretary drove past a dusty camel market in Marrakech, their car was stopped by a mob, who shot both men, dragged their bodies to a nearby garbage heap and set them afire. Another mob burst into the home of Bel Mekki, shot him, cut up his body and tossed the pieces into a fire. Glaoui's old guards were caught, put into carts, tortured publicly, burned alive. Throughout the day and night mobs rampaged through the native...
...natives who came upon a deserted railway tank car near Durban last week recognized the lettering "alcohol" on the car, but the prefix "methyl" meant nothing to them. Agog with the prospect of a gay weekend, they drained off 22 gallons of methyl alcohol still in the bottom of the tank and carried it off in a big black drum to be mixed into home brew. But first they decided to have a quick taste all around...
...evenings when a particular street is to be cleaned, a police sound truck will exhort car-owners to park their cars according to the new plan; on the evening of even-numbered days cars must be parked on the even-numbered sides, and vice versa. Violators will be ticketed, but not, under present plans, towed away...