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Goggle-Eyed Cops. At dawn on the day of the planned raids, New York City cops swooped down on Goldy's Diner in South Ozone Park, Queens, and arrested six coffee drinkers who claimed that they were simply going hunting with the grenades, pipe bombs and rifles in their car. At the same hour, another platoon of policemen moved in on a Westchester County country house, which was flying a U.S. flag with 13 stars not far from its hillside fallout shelter; they found enough arms to fill a truck. In Syracuse, Brewerton, and Bay Shore, L.I., officers flushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: Sunday Patriots | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...throughout the state. Faced with the difficulty of handling thousands of incoming residents, Brown has built the nation's largest toll-free highway system. He has kept the Southern California economic boom from coming to a rasping, bone-dry halt by forcing construction of a reservoir and water-pipe system rivalling the Tennessee Valley Authority in size and expense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown in California | 11/2/1966 | See Source »

...batteries, two prototype electric cars that Ford is now building in England are designed to travel 150 miles at 40 m.p.h. They will weigh 1,100 lbs. and carry two adults and two children. Because electric cars require no transmission, radiator, fuel tank, carburetor, fuel pump, exhaust pipe or muffler, the increased weight of the batteries will be easily absorbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Back to the Electrics | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...seldom sees a bureaucrat without a pipe or with a hat, his habitat is corridors, he takes his exercise indoors, he is always somewhere in between two meetings where he should have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: With Pen & Dream | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...Fantail. The Conserver's C.O., Lieut. Commander Fred Hilder, 34, a plump, pipe-smoking Pennsylvanian, has deep respect for the current Soviet captain's pushing ability. Says Hilder: "He's a hell of a big bear of a man, barechested, and wears a white cloth to shade his head from the sun. And he's got a ship that can turn on a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Skunk Watchers | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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