Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the Horn. In Newcastle, Australia, awakened by police from a sound snooze in the front seat of his car in the middle of the street, Albert T. Jeans indignantly complained...
...Barnwell's graduation, when they could be married. Then their troubles began. Barbara Ann's foot did not heal properly, and she entered a Denver hospital for surgery. When she awoke from anesthesia after the operation, Air Cadet Barnwell was at her bedside. He had borrowed a car and driven from Colorado Springs to be with her. In so doing, he had broken academy regulations against driving-and as punishment he was restricted to the academy for the next four months, all that remained before graduation. Recalled Barbara Ann: "I would stand on a hill and wave...
...later, after commencement, commissioning, and a full-dress, crossed-swords wedding at Denver's Christ the King Roman Catholic Church, the couple began their honeymoon. Last week, driving through southwest Colorado toward New Mexico on Colorado Highway 172, Barnwell lost control of his new, red MG roadster. The car overturned, throwing both Barbara Ann and her husband clear. "I'm O.K.," Lieut. Lee Barnwell groggily told a state trooper. "Take care of my wife." The trooper looked down at Barbara Ann, dead on the ground. Said he softly: "She's in good hands...
Ugly Pleasure. Early last month, after an evening of boozing, the four went out deliberately looking for a Negro girl to ravish. They found their victim,† who had just been to a college dance, with her escort and another couple in a parked car behind a drive-in theater. Hours later, their ugly pleasure taken, the rapists gagged the Negro girl, flung her on the floor of their car and sped off. Deputy sheriffs, warned by the girl's companions, chased the rapists at 90 m.p.h. and overtook them. The Leon County sheriff's office swiftly...
Chrysler Corp. reported total May sales of 70,814, up 19% over last year. To add more zip to sales, Chrysler's President Lester Lum Colbert made some drastic dealer shifts-and readied a new car. The company has known for some time that its dual system of De Soto-Plymouth and Dodge-Plymouth dealerships, has seriously hurt Plymouth sales, since the dealers were inclined to push the higher-priced cars on which they made more money. To correct this, the De Soto and Plymouth divisions were merged, with Plymouth to be top dog. Chrysler last week asked...