Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long that it is taking you an undue time to account for the evil, unmovable, base nature of human beings. We are beasts and so shall we remain as long as somebody's wife is better looking than ours; as long as a neighbor has a better car than ours; as long as our shouting for a principle or idea is overtaken by someone who shouts louder; as long as we may feel that there are weaker beasts willing to be told, to be led, to be directed. We have been like that from prehistoric man to the scholars...
...thief, James Earl Ray's specialty was botching his getaway. After heisting $190 from a St. Louis supermarket in 1959, Ray left tracks that the most flat-footed cop could follow: he even parked a car used in the stickup outside his lodgings. That was characteristic of Ray, whose most profitable known caper, grossing only $2,200, was bungled when the escape car crashed. The cruelest of his convictions was for the $11 stickup of a Chicago cab driver...
Though he was suspended from the force, in a sense Senak still is on the job. Last October, he was driving in Detroit with two prostitutes-one white, one black. He says they jumped into his car before he could stop them; they say he invited them. Whatever the case, all occupants of the car admit that a fight ensued. Senak pulled a knife, and both girls ended up badly cut. They reported the incident to the police but refused to press charges. "The reason I got in trouble all over again," Senak told Hersey, "was because I was overzealous...
...Programmed into the computer are the names of 100,000 possible assailants, largely taken from "hate" letters (which have risen startlingly since January). Whenever the President travels, local police keep such people under close surveillance. The U.S. might look to France for further ideas. When De Gaulle travels, his car is flanked by tough Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité troopers on motorbikes; helicopters hover overhead, and the pace is a brisk 80 miles an hour or more. In towns en route, operating rooms are reserved in hospitals and a supply of De Gaulle's blood...
...differences are considerable. A vice-presidential-level production manager at a consumer-products company with annual sales of $20 million stands to earn from $17,000 to $25,000 a year in Italy, $15,000 to $25,000 in France, not to mention such perquisites as a company car. The Briton in the same job can expect to pull down only half as much. The Briton does get more perks, including an entertainment allowance, housing assistance, a car, sometimes even a company endowment to help foot public-school bills...