Word: hooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles A. Janeway, Rotch Professor of Pediatrica, last night received the first Charles Hood Foundation Child Health Award. The Foundation will allow Janeway to use the award of $250,000 for projects in child health care...
...into a pile of twisted junk barely recognizable as an auto, while the bigger car sustained relatively moderate damage. In the Chevrolet crash, a dummy placed in the Impala only struck its head against the dashboard, but the dummy in the Vega was beheaded by a section of the hood that was hurled back through the windshield...
...played all right. Considered juju (good luck) by the Biafrans, he rode around in a white Mercedes with a death's-head pennant fluttering from its hood. Though a capable military commander, Steiner was regarded by observers as something between a borderline psychopath and a gleeful good Samaritan. To command attention from his troops, he would fire submachine-gun bursts into the ground at their feet...
...providing minority groups with equal opportunities in education. No one?save possibly school-bus manufacturers?is in favor of "busing for the sake of busing," the chimera that Richard Nixon belabors. Blacks, after all, have as strong a sense of neighborhood schools as whites do. But as Nicholas Hood, a black city councilman in Detroit, puts it: "It's pragmatic. We don't have any desire to be close to white people just for the sake of being close to white people. We want the same thing everyone else wants so we can have the same opportunities for our kids...
Williams is being vindicated. Last week his experimental car, a specially fitted American Motors Hornet, with a turbine engine tucked away under the hood, made its first appearance. Whining slightly, it was tested at the federal Environmental Protection Agency's lab at Ann Arbor, Mich. EPA officials were delighted with the engine, which works by using compressed air to drive its turbines. Compact, vibrationless and delivering 80 h.p., it runs on any hydrocarbon fuel from kerosene to coal oil. and gets about 15 miles per gallon in urban traffic. It is also 30% lighter...