Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...link was a 1967 Pontiac Firebird, stolen in Oakland, Calif., that was used as a getaway car. Investigators believe Patty rented garage space for the car in Sacramento the week before the robbery. The Sacramento police received a tip that the garage had been rented by a young woman who was acting suspiciously. TIME has learned that the police set up a stakeout on the car, which lasted from Monday through Friday, April 14 to 18. No one showed up. But on Saturdays and Sundays only a skeleton police force guards the relaxed city of Sacramento, so the watch...
...boasted about her nascent criminal career. A second state charge is that Patty took part in the armed robbery of a sporting-goods store, shooting up the façade to help in the getaway. Bailey will have trouble proving coercion because witnesses have placed Patty alone in the car outside the store with plenty of opportunity to escape...
...midweek, a small white car sped past police headquarters in the Barcelona suburb of La Verneda just after midnight and sprayed the modern building with machine-gun fire. No one was injured. A few moments later, another white car approached the station. Trigger-happy police, believing the second car to be part of the assault, blazed away with their weapons, killing the auto's passengers-a couple and their son returning home from a wake. For reasons still unknown, the police inside the headquarters then fired at a gray police Jeep that had been following the second car...
...jogging to Capitol Hill he had encountered a former SEC chairman riding to work in a limousine. Would Hills require a limousine? "I shall not," he replied, but added, "nor shall I jog." Hills told the Senators he would share his wife's limousine or take the family car-which Proxmire approvingly noted would save the taxpayers $20,000 a year. That was more than enough to convince the Senate. At week's end Hills received his confirmation...
During the past year or two, federal trustbusters have gone after some of the biggest names in U.S. business. Antimonopoly suits are now in various stages of litigation against several giants, including AT&T, IBM, Firestone, Xerox and the big three in the rental-car field: Hertz, Avis and National. Last week the Justice Department turned its attention to some of the biggest banks and insurance companies, charging that they too are in violation of U.S. antitrust laws...