Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Light Bandit crime, Los Angeles police flashed a bulletin to patrol cars: two armed men had just robbed a clothing store and escaped in a grey Ford. Shortly afterward, two officers in a patrol car spotted a grey Ford, pursued it, ran it down after a wild, 70-m.p.h. chase. Driver of the fleeing Ford: Caryl Chessman...
Everyman's Problem. As Jon tries to pin Peter down long enough to sober him up and give him another last chance, Endless Road becomes a relentless chase sequence through Chicago's flossy and sleazy bars, plush and fleabag hotels, punctuated with impromptu shackups. Contrary to prevalent opinion, Author Treat argues that the real alcoholic is a man of satyrical urges and astonishing potency. At novel's end, a penitently sober Peter is entraining for dry New Mexico desert country-but with his hand ominously poised on the doorknob...
...only 279 votes, risked his prestige in a battle that so many regarded as frivolous and others as even "shameful"? According to one don who asked him, Macmillan had a characteristic reason. "It's like fox hunting," he said. "Nobody cares about the fox. It's the chase that counts...
...young sailor has killed in passion, but once he has the child in his clutches, he cannot kill the only witness to the crime. As the police come nearer to the man, the man comes nearer to the heart of the child-and the audience. With the final chase scene, only retired desk sergeants and the ghosts of faithless mistresses can help but wish that every cop in Cardiff will end up under 50 feet of water off Tiger...
...Maine's prouder political distinctions is that it boasts the only woman in the U.S. Senate, Republican Margaret Chase Smith, 62. Handsome Maggie Smith is up for re-election this fall-and she faces the fight of her political life. But whoever wins, Maine will not lose its distaff distinction. Last week the Democratic minority leader of the Maine legislature, popular, plump Lucia Cormier, 48, tossed her bonnet in the ring to oppose Maggie Smith's third-term bid. For the first time in U.S. history, two women are to scrap for a Senate seat...