Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glance at King Phillips should have convinced me to leave. His belly was large and flapping, his accent was grating, and his office was wallpapered with pictures of George Wallace. I went into the office to get a Coke while the car was getting filled, and King spoke...
...dome light flashing behind him did not belong to some friendly police car escorting him to a movie premiere. So Hollywood's Burt Lancaster pulled up his red Mercury and was approached by a pair of California highway patrolmen, who informed him that he had been driving at 55 m.p.h. in a 45-m.p.h. zone. O.K., Mac, here's a ticket. Burt refused to accept it, explaining: "I want to get an education." He was taken to the county jail in Los Angeles, where he refused to post the $65 bail and spent the night in a cell...
...Sacramento, Calif., who could become the first swimmer to win three gold medals in individual events in one Olympics, U.S. aquanauts are expected to win 23 out of 29 races and collect as many as 55 out of 87 medals-gold, silver and bronze. They may need an armored car to get their loot back across the border...
...Three. Still, many owners have not yet answered the recall notice. And for them the intensive search continues. This is by no means unusual. By current Detroit custom, every time a recall campaign is launched, certified letters go out to all owners of suspect cars. A few weeks later, a second batch of certified letters is sent to all those who have not responded. After that, the quest is turned over to Detroit's R. L. Polk & Co., which keeps track of car registrations across the country. Polk thereupon sets out to trace nonanswering owners through serial numbers...
...Brasselle had sold three programs, sight unseen, to his pal, CBS-TV President James (''The Smiling Cobra") Aubrey. The FCC and Aubrey's CBS bosses thought that this was a little strange, especially since the shows were dogs (The Reporter, The Baileys of Balboa, The Car a Williams Show). In addition, CBS had become increasingly uncomfortable over rumors about Aubrey's private life...