Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Impulse Purchase. Actually, business was starting to rebound even before July. In June sales were 16% above year-ago levels, and July's heat drove even more buyers into appliance stores. "It's an impulse item," explains Nicholas F. Tralongo, an appliance-industry analyst at Manhattan's Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co. "You have a bad week, and you rush...
...sedan and retain an interest in a sports car that speaks in the hollow thunder of youth. Until recently I guided each with macho faith and precious little knowledge. After three hours of instruction, concentrated mostly on parking, I obtained a license years ago. Without further instruction, I simply drove. Most of us simply drive. We study tennis, dancing, golf. We simply drive...
...matter of guts, but of brains. Ideally you sit behind the wheel like a computer." Safety is the first priority. The finest racers preach, "First finish. Then finish first."-We walked the track, Couture explaining, always explaining, how to attack each bend, each kink. Then he drove us to the cars: Formula Fords, long-nosed fiber-glass machines that weigh about 950 lbs. and are powered by a standard Pinto engine. Formula Fords are stripped for speed: no windscreen, no headlights, no speedometer (a tachometer is your guide...
...Pontiac showroom in The Bronx, looters smashed through a steel door and stole 50 new cars, valued at $250,000; they put the ignition wires together and drove off. Young men roamed East 14th Street in Manhattan, snatching women's purses. Adults toted shopping bags stuffed with steaks and roasts from a meat market on 125th Street in Harlem. At an appliance store on 105th Street, two boys about ten years old staggered along with a TV set, while a woman strolled by with three radios. "It's the night of the animals," said Police Sergeant Robert Murphy, who wore...
...Cauthen drove Walls home as promised, firmly convinced that the tellers had been mistaken. A short time later, however, a convicted felon also in the lineup told the FBI that he had overheard Brantley and Walls whispering about the robbery. Additional evidence was marshaled, and both Walls and Brantley were put on trial. The jury could not agree about Brantley's guilt, and the Government dropped the charges, but Walls was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison...