Word: reared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asking owners to bring in their cars will cost $1.7 million. Much of all this might have been avoided had the company listened to Edward A. Gregory back in 1965. Gregory, then an inspector at the Fisher Body St. Louis plant, filed four reports that poor sealing in the rear-quarter panel of Chevrolet car bodies permitted seepage of exhaust fumes...
Slumping into the rear seat, he was still wiping his eyes when he heard an ominous click: up front, behind his bulletproof plastic shield, the driver had flicked a switch that locked both rear doors electrically to prevent passengers from taking off before paying the fare. "Where to, fella?" asked a voice from a loudspeaker overhead. John told him. The trip to the office was uneventful, until John put his $10 bill in a revolving tray in the partition and got back change for $5. When he pounded on the plastic and protested, the amplified voice informed him that...
...first 26 hours, a steady parade of vandals had removed the battery, radiator, air cleaner, radio antenna, windshield wipers, right-hand-side chrome strip, hubcaps, a set of jumper cables, a gas can, a can of car wax, and the left rear tire (the other tires were too worn to be interesting). Nine hours later, random destruction began when two laughing teen-agers tore off the rearview mirror and began throwing it at the headlights and front windshield...
Sophomore Alan Watson placed fifth in the Giant Slalom and fourth in the Slalom for Harvard's best individual performance. Jay O'Rear, Larry Carter and captain Peter Carter were the only other Crimson competitors to finish among the top ten in either Alpine event...
...four Crimson skiers could capture the slalom title. Willie Draper, who placed fourth in the NCAA Championship last winter, has finally skied himself into shape after a disastrous start. But Draper may still have trouble catching teammates Jay O' Rear, Larry Carter, and Pete Carter, all of whom performed well this year...