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...while they held a liars' contest. First prize was $10, second $7.50 and third $5. Ernie Thompson, wearing a Chevrolet cap and leaning on a cane, got started off all right but then got lost in the convolution of his story. "My lie starts back in the spring of '37. I was down here on Rock Creek fishing a pretty good-size little hole." He saw a squirrel on a stump and then a bear swallowed the squirrel. Before it was all over he had caught a fish, which weighed about half a pound, that had swallowed a coon, which...
Most Americans associate inexpensive, imported cars with vehicles made in Japan. The Yugoslav-made Yugo GV, which went on sale last week, aims to change . all that. At $3,990 it is the lowest-price auto sold in the U.S., $1,000 less than the next cheapest car, Chevrolet's Japanese-made Sprint. Yet the Yugo's sticker price seems to be just what buyers want. Orders for 3,000 Yugos have flowed into the company's 83 dealerships, mostly in the East and Midwest, where just 500 cars are available. Six-month waiting lists have built up. "Unbelievable," says...
...protected, that he feared for his life at all times. It was more than a little strange." After Barbara Walker's tip, the FBI secured court permits to tap Walker's telephones. On May 19, after hearing him talk about a special trip to Charlotte, N.C., agents watched his Chevrolet Astro van head north toward Potomac, Md., instead. According to trailing agents, Walker drove evasively, checking to see if he was being followed. He did in fact shake his pursuers for nearly three hours, but they luckily ran across him near Poolesville, Md. On a lonely country road, the agents...
...arrest on charges of drunk driving would be embarrassing for any solid citizen, but for Roman Catholic Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, the experience was downright sobering. The churchman was picked up in February when his Chevrolet brushed against the side of a store. After a blood-alcohol test administered by police showed a reading of .19%, nearly double the .10% level that Minnesota law defines as intoxication, the archbishop was invited to spend the night in the county jail. Recalled Sheriff Dave Ninnemann: "He was a model prisoner...
...Hughes Tool Co. executive, heard four shots ring out while on patrol in his East Houston neighborhood on March 3, he could not resist the impulse to take action, however dangerous. As he radioed his base station --Hester's handle was "Stringbean," the base was "Country Cousin"--a white Chevrolet Monza with three occupants sped past him. He followed at high speed. Country Cousin, actually Howard Petty, 61, security director for the Eastwood Civic Association, relayed the information to a deputy constable hired by the association on weekends. The deputy intercepted the fleeing Monza and took the occupants at gunpoint...