Word: compartmentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Loot. All the money Hamlett could produce was $885. They took it and demanded to be led to his boss. After another cuffing, Hamlett supplied the address of his employer, Used-Car Dealer Jimmy Hicks. Cook and Parks put Hamlett into his own Cadillac and drove to Hicks'...
School of Experience. In North Bergen, N.J., Hudson County Detective Dominick Meatto took three rookie cops for a training ride, said, "Now this is how you stop a car and search it," flagged down a passing auto, promptly arrested Driver Willie Smith when he found a loaded, unlicensed .45 in...
* In Kiev in 1939 a man in the uniform of a railroad official threw a bomb into the compartment of a train in which Khrushchev was sitting. Two passengers traveling with Khrushchev were killed. (The small slit scar under his nose is believed to be a memento of this incident...
The lamb of The Lamb is 22-year-old Xavier Dartigelongue, a would-be seminary student. Like Dostoevsky's "idiot" Prince Myshkin, Xavier is a fool in Christ, a saint somehow leading himself to destruction. Xavier feels himself spiritually handcuffed to any human soul in need. On the train...
The new going-away look is dominated by higher, longer rear fenders (now known as "fins," and "air foils") ending in aquiline beaks that sniff disdainfully off into space like ships' figureheads in reverse. The fender line in many new cars, e.g., Cadillac, Plymouth, Chevrolet and Studebaker-Packard'...