Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...car sped off on a 20-minute drive to Daly City. She was taken to a small, neat tract home where she said she had first been held by the S.L.A. after her abduction. Patty and the jurors looked at the first closet, which was 24 in. wide and 66 in. long. (The house is now owned by a family that leases the closet-which is kept locked-to the FBI for an incredible $299 a month. The owner complains that the FBI is in arrears.) Patty was close to collapse as she looked at the cell where she said...
...with sandy regimental mustache who for 14 years has been a globe-trekking State Department troubleshooter. One of Thome's primary concerns is to maintain a painstaking neutrality. Mission members will be required to split their leaves between Cairo and Tel Aviv, each about five hours away by car. Of nine wives who will accompany the party, the five with no children will be sent to Cairo and the four with children to Tel Aviv, where the schools are better. Thorne, the model of neutrality, maintains an apartment in each city...
...conspirators' one grim success came when they caught Murtala's black Mercedes limousine in a morning rush-hour traffic jam in Lagos. Raking the car with machine-gun fire, the plotters killed Murtala, his chauffeur and an aide. Shortly thereafter, Coup Leader Lieut. Colonel B.S. Dimka and six associates seized the Lagos radio station and announced that they were taking over the government. But there was no support for the action in the army and outlying states, and Dimka soon realized that he was finished. Hands in pockets, he jauntily said, "Excuse me," walked out of the Lagos...
...numher of services that would take months to obtain from state-managed building repair crews. Some of these repairmen are highly skilled engineers who quadruple their salaries, tax free, by after-hours work. Simes observes that everyone who owns an auto-and there are now 15 million passenger cars on Soviet roads-is a permanent user of the parallel market. While it could take weeks to have a car repaired and months to obtain spare parts, affluent drivers can quickly get what they need by bribing mechanics and service-station attendants. A bottle of vodka is the minimum and usually...
...horsecar swayed and rattled down Fifth Avenue. At the car's center a small potbellied stove gave off insufficient heat, and mephitic fumes. On the floor was straw as Insulation. My fellow passengers were mostly men, mostly bearded, mostly potbellied like the stove. In fact, saving the desperate poor, everyone in New York is overweight: it seems to be the style...