Word: mustangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notable loser is Ford's Mustang, whose sales have dropped an abysmal 24.5% since Jan. 1. The pull of the intermediates-about the same bumper-to-bumper length as the full-sized cars of eight years ago-seems to reflect a conservative trend in auto buying. In part, this is attributed to a more mature group of buyers: many youngsters, who would normally buy the hot-shot styles, are either in the military service or anticipating a call...
...vigilance, he rambled across the country using a collection of aliases. Then, after a .30-'06 bullet killed Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 4, spurious radio messages sent Memphis police chasing the wrong way after Ray's 1966 white Mustang...
About the time Gait flashed his money at the dancing school, he took a songwriter named Charles Stein on a two-day trip to New Orleans in the Mustang. While passing through Texas, Gait made several long-distance telephone calls from pay booths, and so insistent was he on repeating his name that Stein surmised that "he was establishing a fictitious identity." Once they returned to Los Angeles, Stein saw little of Gait, but is certain that he made at least one more trip to New Orleans...
...Fatal Day. On April 3-the day before King was murdered-Gait registered at Memphis' Rebel Motel, and his Mustang was seen parked near Room 34. Clerks said that Gait made no telephone calls through their switchboard, but the lights in the room stayed on all night. Next day John Willard-an alias used by Gait-rented Room 5 in the sleazy rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel, where King was shot...
...shooting, the man called Willard was seen rushing out of the rooming house; the rifle and a ditty bag were found on the street; witnesses reported that the white car tore away at top speed. Amid the confusion, a mysterious radio call described a continuing police chase after the Mustang. The chase went one way, the Mustang another, and the broadcast later was discovered to have been a fake. The killer had been given his chance to escape...