Word: sidewalkers
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...test, she was tailed by a platoon of reporters and photographers. Climbing into her test car, she stalled seven times, at last put-putted off at 15 m.p.h., made a quick right turn, nearly crashing into a van, stalled at a stop street, backed over a sidewalk while making a turn, sailed through a red light, flicked on her left-turn indicator at an intersection and then drove straight across, finally parked at the test center-three feet from the curb. So sure was Miss Hunter of her innocence that she refused to heed court summonses to answer...
...shoes, strolls into a shoe store and tries on an expensive pair. "They look dark in this light," he murmurs, and permits the salesgirl to urge him toward the front door, where he carefully inspects the leather in the sunlight. A tomato, flung by an accomplice on the sidewalk, smacks him in the face. "Why, you punk!" the hero roars, and as the salesgirl stares in confusion he furiously pursues his assailant down the street and around the corner, running quite well for a man in a new pair of shoes...
...rises through the sidewalk and crumples our knees. We oting to the pavement with hands and foot. Hear...
...grounds that he had other things to do-things like writing a book about the peacemaker's role he believes he played in the Cuban and Sino-Indian crises, and keeping up his pen-palship with Khrushchev, Chou En-lai and Castro. Then Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 25, sidewalk-sitting daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, resigned by mail. A Committee of One Hundred spokesman refused to talk about Vanessa's reason for bombing the bans: "I cannot say anything more than that it was a short letter...
Sizzling Waves. A Norwegian freighter, the Imo, was coming the other way through the Halifax Narrows that morning. The two ships went into a clumsy dance like people trying to pass on a sidewalk. When they ultimately collided, the Norwegian ship gashed the bows of the Mont Blanc and broke open some of the benzole drums. The fluid ran out over the deck and poured down into the hold. The Norwegian ship disengaged, and, as steel scraped steel, sparks ignited the benzole. The Mont Blanc blazed fire for a full 25 minutes before the explosion. The French crew abandoned ship...