Word: hit-run
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...years, a resolute Tennessean named Welby Lee has searched for the hit-run driver who hurtled out of the gloom on a rural road and killed his father on New Year's Eve, 1944. With only a broken bumper guard as solid evidence, Lumber Merchant Lee, now 51, traced scores of cars, braced dozens of suspects and traveled 100,000 miles before he caught up last summer with Grover Jones, 55, now an Indianapolis handyman. Lee amassed 153 pages of circumstantial evidence, and Jones was indicted for second-degree murder...
...nasty guerrilla conflict in South Viet Nam is beginning to look more and more like a full-scale conventional war. Ominously, the Communist Viet Cong are often forsaking the shadowy, hit-run tactics they have heretofore used in favor of challenging the government in set-piece battles. In the past fortnight alone, the Reds have mounted battalion-strength attacks in Tayninh and Kienhoa provinces, as well as the Delta village of Goden. Last week, in Chuong Thien province, they unleashed their biggest assault...
...General Motors' Fisher Body plants were shut down, and some 7,000 workers walked out of a Pontiac assembly plant the same day that Pontiac's 1959 models were put on view. Said G.M. Vice President and Top Negotiator Louis G. Seaton: "The hit-run guerrilla warfare has the obvious goal of crippling 1959 automobile production." Nevertheless, the companies refused to budge from a firm no to union demands...
Some said he had the death wish on him, some that he had taken the hit-run motor incident (TIME, May 3) badly and was deeply ashamed at driving on without stopping. Others saw him as he saw himself, the tragic figure of a savior to whom nobody was grateful. He insisted over and over that only his resignation from Labor's shadow Cabinet at the first mention of a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization had restrained Clement Attlee and indirectly, Anthony Eden, from plunging ahead and bringing on a world war. Stubbornly he reiterated that the rank and file...
...prosperous lawyer and a highly regarded former governor of Florida, was named civilian defense administrator at $17,500 a year. Washington has no charms for him: he resigned his seat in Congress in 1940 and left the capital after his only son was killed there by a hit-run driver. He was taking the civilian defense job (which does not require Senate confirmation) as a patriotic duty...