Word: sedan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, the phone rang in the big white stucco house on Alpine Drive. The maid-a Beverly Hills policewoman-answered, told the caller that Mr. Firestone could not be disturbed. Twenty minutes later, a black 1965 Ford sedan pulled into the semicircular driveway. Two men walked toward the door. One, Bailey, wore a rubber Halloween mask to hide the knife scars above his right eye. The other, Skalla, had a brown felt hat pulled down over his eyes. Both carried guns-Skalla had one in each hand-and wore surgical gloves...
...years ago, three East Berlin students donned homemade Russian uniforms, doctored a car to look like a Soviet military sedan and calmly drove through a checkpoint in the Communist Wall, unchallenged by the border guards. The story of the ingenious escape obviously got around, for last week West Berliners were chuckling over a similar stunt pulled off a fortnight ago with the help of American uniforms...
...while seating Red China, and contained a barrage of proposals for a revolutionary overhaul of the U.N. What Peking wanted was to wreck the U.N. Would it accept anything less? After last week's tie vote, a Red Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong sniffed that even "were a sedan chair with eight men employed to carry China into the U.N., China still would...
...industry disagrees about the desirability of the new trend. Says Fairfax Cone: "It's bad manners, and I can't believe the public will stand for it." The rivals who get named do not always feel bad about it. MG shows its sports sedan beside a Volkswagen, asks the question: "Popularity contest: Who won?" (MG's answer: In a poll of 28,000 people, Volkswagen, which sells 68.2 cars to MG's one in the U.S., was preferred by three out of five people, a ratio that the less known MG found flattering.) Volkswagen...
After breakfast, he strolls out to the wide, flower-fringed lawn for his regular hour of darshan (audience) with the favor seekers and admirers that surround any politician. A chauffeur and a single white-clad bodyguard accompany him in a black, Indian-built Hindustan Ambassador sedan to his office in the circular, sandstone Parliament House. Office routine-sometimes 17 hours a day of it-is interrupted only by a vegetarian lunch of curry, potato cutlet and tea (prepared by his wife) and a half-hour nap. A heart attack in 1959 and another seizure last year, shortly after he assumed...