Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police, on the other hand, presented a painstaking and cohesive case. The 1957 Buick they claimed had led them on an 80-m.p.h. chase was tested on a treadmill to prove it was still capable of such high speeds; a similar car was used to re-enact the shooting for photographic exhibits. A ballistics expert testified that gunpowder burns on the victim's shirt proved the gun had been fired inside the car, and a physiologist was brought in to verify that a man thrown off balance would tend to make a reflexive clutching movement that could pull...
...police told a different story-of a wild 40-block chase at 80 m.p.h. and an apparently drunken driver who stepped on the gas just as the investigating officer reached in the window. Taking the stand in his own behalf, Bova, 23, said that the car "gave a sudden lurch forward. My feet were knocked out from under me. I recall making a grab to get my balance. At this time, my revolver was unintentionally fired...
...prime complaint centers on what Chase Manhattan Chairman George Champion calls "government by guide line." Alcoa President John D. Harper and Inland Steel Chairman Joseph L. Block are just two of the many corporate chiefs who argue that the wage-price guides are unworkable and unfair in that they are applied unevenly and have not prevented wages from soaring in industries as varied as construction and textiles. Though he endorses many of Johnson's other policies, Gaylord A. Freeman Jr., vice chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago, criticizes the guideline policy because "it's not good...
...hero with a penchant for sex and violence hardly dares to go at it with a straight face. In Killed, James Garner pops his eyes and furrows his brow over the quaint proposition that the colony of international spies quartered in Lisbon has nothing better to do than chase around trying to filch $5,000,000 worth of smuggled industrial diamonds. Cast as a standard case of mistaken identity, Garner eludes more than 20 villains who sport accents to match their allegiances. Helping along from crisis to crisis, with defused dialogue for weaponry, are Tony Franciosa as a would...
...Harvard 800-yard freestyle relay team of sophomers Phil Chase, Bill Shrout, and Pete Adams along with Captain elect Jim Seubold, also nailed down All-America laurels During the past winter the relay team broke a Crimson record with a time...