Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier in the week, other Israelis had already vented their feelings about the proposals brought by Vance. One morning, a car pulled up outside Jerusalem's King David Hotel, where Vance was sleeping, and a loudspeaker started blaring: "Vance go home! Vance go home!" From a second loudspeaker came the chant, "Cyrus Vance. Go see your friends in Egypt. We don't want you here...
...Car horns sounded a deafening tattoo in the streets of Caracas last week as Venezuelans hailed the outcome of their fifth free presidential election in 20 years. The surprise result: a defeat for the ruling left-liberal Acción Democrática Party, the country's dominant political organization...
Somehow that personal relationship survives today. Jeep buyers seem undaunted by the $12,000 starting price of AMC's new top of the line Wagoneer Limited, which has almost every luxury-car feature and for which there is a long waiting list. Sales of the least expensive $5,000 CJ. (for civilian Jeep) - a doughty, roofless runabout that is a direct descendant of the wartime model-have never been brisker. Rising gasoline prices have not deterred buyers, although industry sources say the Jeep fleet averages about 11 m.p.g. But federal authorities have directed that four-wheel-drive fleets must...
...willing to take the plunge. She always was the athletic Angel, and now Majors is getting to do all her own stunt work for her latest film, Sunburn. As Model Ellie Morgan, hired to help Private Eye Charles Grodin investigate an insurance swindle in Acapulco, she steers a car at breakneck speed through a bullring and fights off a gang of thugs under water. During the filming, stunt men got their signals crossed and pulled Majors beneath the surface before she had secured her breathing tube, nearly drowning her. But with it all, she is delighted at 31 to submerge...
...supposed--the thieves turned out to be nothing more than a bunch of petty, two-bit bumblers who hung out in Scolley Square, pulling off little jobs and dreaming of the big heist. It seemed poetic justice that these ordinary crooks were the ones to hit the prestigious armored-car company for a million and a half dollars. It was a daring robbery, no one got hurt, and the crooks very nearly got away with it. It's the stuff of legends...