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Second Front. In Oklahoma City, while Patrolmen Sam Billings and Travis Brown were questioning a motorist stopped for speeding, two armed thugs made off with $30 from a filling station directly across the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...motorist spotted the wounded policeman and took him to the Conway hospital, 19 miles from Myrtle Beach. There he died. Next day, city, county and state police refused to say a word; but the case was too hot to hush. As newspapers began digging into the story, Myrtle Beach's tourist-conscious resort owners wrung their hands over the threat to their trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: Backfire | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Horsepower. In Atlantic City, after complaining to police that a horse had kicked in a fender of his car, Motorist Robert C. Pearson was informed that all he could do was bring a civil suit for damages: "It's not a motor vehicle violation, because a horse is not operated by a gasoline-driven motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 11, 1950 | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Provocation. In Seattle, bruised Pedestrian Everett D. Beeson admitted to police that he should never have yelled at the motorist who had almost bumped him, "Why don't you go ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 21, 1950 | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...Oslo, a motorist who is overly gay when he leaves the bar is liable to be tapped on the shoulder by a policeman and asked down to the police station. Norwegian law provides that the police may give any driver a blood test if they have "fair reason" to suspect that he has had too much akevitt-i.e., more than a concentration of five-tenths of a milligram of alcohol per cubic centimeter in the blood. * Recently, a Norwegian driver who had had a few drinks but wanted to move his car a few feet into a better parking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Sober & Silly | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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