Word: patrol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holed up with fellow plotters in a neat, palm-shaded and hedge-hidden house in the outlying Country Club District. The tipster claimed that the rebels were plotting President Fulgencio Batista's assassination. Police, reinforced by army troops, threw a cordon around the district. As 20 radio patrol cars converged on the quiet residence in West Royal Avenue, a group of men and one woman ran out and scattered, some in cars and some on foot...
...minutes, to the sound of shrieking tires and intermittent gunfire, police played hare & hounds with a 1954 green Oldsmobile. In it the cops claimed to have got a momentary view of Sánchez Arango, dapper in a white suit and sporting a brand-new mustache. Just as a patrol car closed in behind the Olds, an older Buick got in the way, neatly blocked the police out of play, and the Olds disappeared in a burst of speed...
...last two decades, the whole country has learned to be proud of the School Safety Patrol. Sponsored by the Automobile Association of America, it really got going in 1922, when President Charles Hayes of the Chicago Motor Club started a program in his home city, eventually persuaded the A.A.A. to back it on a nationwide basis. Today some 500,000 schoolchildren are members, and U.S. motorists have long since grown used to seeing the white Sam Browne belts and shiny badges glistening at school crossings. Largely because of the patrol's work, accidents involving schoolchildren have dropped...
...think the article is well done, and hope it increases the readers interest in sports cars in general, and road racing in particular . . . One mistake is the statement about my flying for the Coast Guard during World War II; it should have been the Civil Air Patrol...
...Nickerson, a converted first baseman, will patrol in right with hefty Tony Markella playing in left...