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Word: drivered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Long Island, an enraged driver who thought he had been cut off smashed the offending vehicle with an ax. In a lane-changing argument . in Sacramento, a passenger in a pickup truck shot and killed the driver of the other car. After a near collision in Virginia, two drivers tried to settle matters by staging a shootout. "This is getting more common," says a Chicago Police Lieutenant. "Everybody seems to be uptight." Even some men on his own force. In the Windy City last year, two off-duty officers were fired and one was placed on probation for attacking other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Auto Violence | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...chapters across the nation. To qualify for membership, a motor-home owner must have a vehicle that is at least 18 ft. long, is "self-contained," meaning that it has an on-board sanitary system, galley and generator, and is built so that an adult can walk upright from driver's seat to back. Some come with multiple color TVs and air conditioners, CB radios, trash compactors, ice makers, built-in vacuum cleaners, music centers and, in the case of Jim and Dee Foss, a Hammond organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Dakota: The Motor Homers Gather | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

BORN. To Lesley Brown, 31, and Gilbert John Brown, 38, a truck driver; the world's first baby conceived outside the human body; their first child, a girl; in Oldham, England. Name: Louise (see MEDICINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Milestones | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...northwest region of England. There, in a guarded room of the maternity section of Oldham and District General Hospital, Lesley Brown, 30, a resident of Bristol, was being tended in her final month of pregnancy. For nine years she and her husband Gilbert John, 38, a van driver for British Rail, had futilely tried to have a child. Now, finally, the Browns were on the verge of achieving their hearts' desire?in a most spectacular manner. Early in August, she is due to give birth by natural means to a child that her doctors say was conceived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...also tested the cars and reached the same general conclusion, but it had some reservations. The Canadians were concerned that when the Omni or Horizon is traveling at high speed, and the steering wheel is yanked sharply to one side, then released and allowed to swing free while the driver keeps his foot on the gas, the wheel oscillates back and forth. This characteristic was not a "defect" but was "undesirable," said the Canadian engineers, and they feel Chrysler should correct it. Added Peter Keith, head of the ministry's advanced-engineering department: "While this oscillating is significant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Omni Gets a Lift | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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