Word: speeder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quintana: "ICA has become a mother-hen company that creates everything and has its own chickens and eggs around it." Among the results of that policy are Industria del Hierro, a machinery producer in Querétaro, and partnerships with a dozen European and U.S. firms-including Link-Belt Speeder Co., now a division of FMC Corp. of California...
Under the aptly named chief of its Public Security group, William Gunn, Bangor Punta is rapidly becoming the Abercrombie & Fitch of law and order. Fully equipped by the company, a cop could use a Bangor Punta Dominator radarscope to spot a speeder or car thief, signal him to stop with a Dominator siren, pull out a Smith & Wesson .38 and pull on a Lake Erie gas mask, flush his quarry with Lake Erie tear gas, immobilize him with Mace, bring him to with a Stephenson resuscitator, check him for alcohol with a Breathalyzer, and slap on Smith & Wesson handcuffs...
VASCAR is not only versatile; it is also easy to operate. When a cruising patrolman spots a car as much as a mile ahead and moving away from him fast, he waits for the suspected speeder to flash past a clearly defined landmark, such as an intersection, streetlamp, tree or signpost. The officer then flicks on the time switch, flicks it off when his quarry passes a second roadmark. Time is thus locked into VASCAR's computer. To measure the distance between the two reference points, the patrolman flips on the distance switch when he reaches the first point...
...concentrated and injected. It acts on the central nervous system in such a way as to give what the three medical researchers, who have studied addicts at the California Rehabilitation Center at Corona, describe as a "sudden generalized, overwhelming, pleasureful feeling." With somewhat more enthusiasm, a female speeder says that "it fills you inside, like this churning cloud of light with sparks shooting off, jagged, in all the colors of the rainbow, the universe in the process of creation. And you're a part...
Other symptoms also appear. Uncomfortable hallucinations take the place of initial euphoria; in almost all cases, the feeling of omnipotence gives way to paranoia. Shadows and trees become disguised detectives, best friends turn informers, parked cars become police cruisers. Strangely enough, the speeder usually realizes that he is paranoid, and at the start does not take his delusions too seriously. Toward the end, however, he generally finds them considerably more convincing. Though he may collapse from intense exertion, the speeder most often requires a barbiturate for sleep, which lasts from twelve to 18 hours after a short...