Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somebody told somebody that Mabel Sheehan, 72, who lives alone with her sheep dog in a working-class district of Philadelphia, had bought a car for a friend. Somebody else heard that she had paid for several trips to Puerto Rico for other friends. None of this was true, police said later, but people in the neighborhood began estimating how much money she might have stashed away in her modest row house. Someone guessed $35,000. Someone guessed more. There was even talk of a hoard of $45 million. None of this was true either-her only income...
...Louis airport Police Officers John Clouse and Ed Philippe set out one day last week to train and test two of the dogs that the airport uses to help provide security against hijackers and terrorists. Two sticks of dynamite without detonators would be placed in a car and the dogs would be turned loose to find them. The police chose a passenger car at random in the airport's parking lot, hid the dynamite under the bumper, and after warning parking-lot personnel, took the dogs to another part of the airport to begin the search. While the dogs...
...dynamite is not dangerous, police insisted, but they alerted patrols on highways around St. Louis to search for the potentially explosive car. They made more than 200 phone calls to those who flew into the airport that night, but all in vain. Until the elderly couple discovered their plight while watching television, Canine Commander Lieut. John Reeg had only the traditional explanation, the one about communications...
...city dwellers), who want to save the wilderness at all costs, against country folk, who feel jobs and recreational activities must be preserved as well. For a look at what Minnesotans are calling the battle of the canoe vs. outboard, TIME Correspondent Madeleine Nash toured the combat zone by car, on foot and, of course, by motorboat and canoe. Her report...
...surly mood. SIERRA CLUB KISS MY AXE and NO SKIDOO NO CANOE, proclaim bumper stickers. A group of snowmobilers who whined into the forbidden area two winters ago and were promptly arrested are now local folk heroes dubbed the Ely Ten. The strife has also been marked by violence: car windows have been broken, tires slashed and 200-year-old trees felled to block access to the canoeing paradise...