Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, both topics were probed exhaustively by various teams of reporters. Unfortunately, there were no tape recorders whirring in the Kennedy car when it went off Dike Bridge, resulting in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne. The Johnson wealth, stemming mostly from a highly profitable Austin radio and TV station whose stock was held in Lady Bird's name, proved impossible to trace fully. The reporting on Teddy was far from protective; opinion polls show most Americans do not believe his story-and his chance of becoming President has been severely damaged. As for L.B.J., he was forced...
...July a California Court of Appeal unanimously overturned the conviction of a 32-year-old Los Angeles salesman in the rape of a 23-year-old waitress-hitchhiker. To help explain the decision, Justice Lynn Compton wrote that a woman who enters a stranger's car "advertises that she has less concern for the consequences than the average female." In response, Attorney Gloria Allred, a National Organization for Women coordinator, claimed the judge was ignoring "the fact that rape is an act of violence, not of sex." University of Southern California Law Professor Stephen Morse called Compton...
Five years ago, when Boston Policeman John O'Brien was rounding the corner of Brighton's Commonwealth Avenue and Washington Street at 10 m.p.h. in broad daylight, he lost control of his police car and struck an elderly woman named Bridget Neville. Six months in the hospital and $32,000 in medical bills later, Neville, now 83, won a belated jury award of $103,253. Fair enough...
...will lead," he maintains. "I say that because I think that the underpinning of the show is the sanctity of the family unit?believe it or not. There is a scene between a mother and her daughter that will make you cry. Now my feeling is that if you car get involved enough in a program that when two of the characters start communicating with each other to the point where you're moved ?then that's a good program...
With apologies (not completely convincing) for taking in so much so fast, Durrell inspects Sicily-its history, people, temples, flowers. He pauses for a charming lecture on Empedocles (Durrell is an intellectual name-dropper). He loves sudden transportations over centuries. One afternoon the bus comes upon a serenely classical car crash: "The occupant of the sports car was a handsome blond youth, and he was lying back in his seat as if replete with content, with sunlight, with wine. The expression on his face was one of benign calm, of beatitude...But the little man whose stethoscope was planted inside...