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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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One of the probable reasons for the Attorney General's sweeping statement is Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., an Alabamian who has lived his 34 years in Birmingham. Rowe is a stocky, reddish-haired man remembered by acquaintances as a job-to-job drifter, working at various times in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The Informer | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

In the 3,100-mile East African Safari, it helps if a driver knows his zoology. Cows confronted by cars act plain stupid: they have to be bumpered off the road. Sheep and goats scatter at the first toot. Elephants are cops, happily waving on traffic with their trunks. Rhinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Crash Course in Zoology | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

According to the indictment, Harold Tousignaut not only held three town jobs (police chief, building inspector, road supervisor) paying $600 a month, but also netted $8,000 a year by leasing police cars to the village. Chief Tousignaut ordered each of his four policemen to drive 100 miles a day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traffic Court: Losers on the Road | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

Colorado requires local police to file state reports on all drunken drivers. To avoid that technicality, Greenwood's cops allegedly ordered motorists to get out of their cars, then charged them with being "drunk in a public place," a tactic yielding fines of up to $300 without the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traffic Court: Losers on the Road | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

Died. Sydney Chaplin, 80, Charlie's half-brother (his elder by four years) and former business manager, an actor in his own right, who appeared with Charlie in Mack Sennett's early Keystone Cops comedies, starred in the first of four film versions of Charley's Aunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 23, 1965 | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

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