Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some great action scenes. In an opening sequence reminiscent of the great pilot impersonation in the beginning of Magnum Force, Harry shoots three hold-up men who are holding four customers hostage in a liquor store. The excitement comes when he takes them by surprise, delivering their requested getaway car through the front of the store at high speed, and taking a blast from a double-barrel 12-gauge through the windshield on the way. After this subtle entrance, he miraculously picks off the bad guys in the time it would take you to say ".44 magnum" three times, while...
...were suggestions for fireside chats, for town meetings with Carter presiding, for TV talk shows where people could phone in questions for the President. One writer suggested White House "jeans and beans" suppers for ordinary citizens-everybody eat beans, everybody wear jeans. Some wanted Carter to drive his own car in city traffic jams and to do his own shopping at the supermarket-just to keep a feel for prices. Warned Karl Olson of Rockville, Md.: "Don't go to the real exclusive places for lunch like Sans Souci, Trader Vic's or places like that. I suggest...
...note was found inside a Volvo parked on the isolated Tel Baruch Beach north of Tel Aviv. Inside the car was a .22-cal. revolver and the body of a man who had shot himself in the head after scribbling a final message to his wife and children, asking them to "accept this act with understanding." The victim: Avraham Ofer, 55, Housing Minister in Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government and a longtime Labor Party official...
...contraband currency was seized, and a further $496 million in illegal financial deals was uncovered. Far more had undoubtedly slipped past the understaffed Guardia. As one of its officers admitted last week, "We would have to mobilize the whole Italian army if we wanted to search every person and car that crossed our frontiers. Last year almost 40 million people crossed into Italy, and of these 15 million came over for less than 24 hours and then went out again. If we searched everybody we would paralyze border traffic and what we would lose from tourism alone would...
...technology seems to bring us together, it does so only by making new ways of separating us from one another. The One World of Americans in the future will be a world of 200 million private compartments. The progression from the intimately jostling horse-drawn carriage to the railroad car to the encapsulated lone automobile rider and then to the seat-belted airplane passenger who cannot converse with his seatmate because they are both wearing earphones for the recorded music; the progression from the parent reading aloud to the children, to the living theater with living audiences, to the darkened...