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Finding an empty car near the run, a night watchman called the cops, and after a long, moonlit search, the investigators found Monti and his men shoveling snow off the sled track as busily as neighbors clearing a driveway. Nonplused at having nabbed a world champion, the cops collected the shovels and made a report to the Bob-Wart (track steward). Next morning, with the backing of the Italian Bobsled Association, the steward and his Championship Jury disqualified Shoveler Monti's sled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Moonlight Mischief | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Back in the city. Starkweather had a new idea. As a garbage collector he had come to know the city's exclusive southeast side and its well-to-do homes. He eased into the driveway of a handsome French provincial house on South 24th Street, pulled into the garage, forced his way into the home of C. Lauer Ward, president of the Capital Steel Co. Starkweather prodded Mrs. Clara Ward, 46, and Housekeeper Lillian Fend, 51, to the second floor, bound and gagged them, then stabbed them to death. About 5:30, after a conference with Nebraska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Even with the World | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...royal couple's black Lagonda, with Prince Philip at the wheel, swept up the driveway and pulled to a stop, the Queen Anne windows of the school were crammed with the curious faces of earlier arrivals. Placing a smart new hat with a blue C firmly on his head, Charles stepped up to the waiting headmaster at his mother's behest, raised the hat and shook hands with a firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The New Boy | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...first morning they entered a white school, Greensboro Negroes were jeered; there were no hecklers the second day. The abusive "Damn Nigger" scrawlings on the asphalt driveway outside Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem were predictable. What was not predictable was the group of white students who scrubbed the drive clean. Said one: "This reflects on the name of the school, and we don't want that." Winston-Salem's only integrated Negro student entered, passed about 100 white students. Not one offered insult. A few smiled hello. Gwendolyn Yvonne Bailey, 15, walked into the school auditorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Advance in North Carolina | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

Below the Belt. In Laramie, Wyo., Mrs. Ralph Conwell got into the right side of her Chevrolet to wait for her husband, cinched up her new safety belt, tried in vain to reach the brake as the car rolled down the driveway, rammed a truck, jumped the curb, mowed down a lilac bush and crashed into the bedroom of the house next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

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