Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...associate dean of the Faculty, remembers that July 5, 1965 blast that caused the death of one worker. He recalled last week how he left the building that night at about midnight. Three hours later he was coming back to do more research. He saw the explosion from his car miles away. He says that people were doing experiments in the facility that they shouldn't have been doing. But that wouldn't happen now, Pipkin says, because Harvard takes more precautions...
...recently by screams in the night. "I thought I was dreaming," she recalled afterward. "I imagined that I was in New York and it was only a rape or murder, and I wasn't going to get up. But then I looked out my window and saw a car without license plates, with all four doors open. A man was pushing a woman into the front. Then all the doors closed at once. The car drove off, followed by another. Next day, a doorman explained that such things often happened. Drunks got disorderly in the area's posh...
...restaurant, where steam billows from the customers' mouths and ears; in a ro mantic fantasy number, featuring the bride and groom coming to life atop a wedding cake, tapping down the tiered layers and sinking in a swamp of frosting. There is a rambunctious interlude in a sports car, small and overcrowded, where a pregnant passenger in the boot tips the balance and sends the MG down the street on rear axle power, looking like a bicycle on training wheels...
...According to State Attorney Harry Morrison, Carswell, now a Florida lawyer and bankruptcy referee, struck up a conversation with another man in a Tallahassee shopping center rest room that was under police observation as a homosexual meeting place. The pair, said Morrison, drove off in Carswell's car and parked in a wooded area where Carswell "actually and intentionally" touched his companion, a police undercover agent who responded by making an arrest. Carswell, who is married and has four children, has denied any wrongdoing...
...Instead of tearing down sturdy old structures (what would Rome be if that had been the Italian approach?), builders are renovating them and turning them to new uses. The process-alas, called "recycling" in current jargon-has caught on across the U.S. In Salt Lake City trolley-car barns now house an entertainment center; a Cleveland power plant has become a theater; what was once a torpedo factory in Alexandria, Va., is an arts center...