Word: speeder
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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...
...Italian? It must decide, for example, whether to include peculiarly Italian uses of English words. Sexy is in conversational use in Italy but implies heights of nubility far beyond the English meaning. A box is a garage for such fast sports cars as spyders, which is a corruption of speeder. A pullman is a long-distance bus; water is short for water closet. Some phrases have been adopted intact, such as strip tease, baby doll, Latin lover and jet set. Topless, fortunately, brings the same vision to Italian men as to Americans...
Massachusetts Attorney General Edward J. McCormack also blames the voter. In a short discussion after the WHRB Radio Forum yesterday, McCormack emphasized that when the moral standards of the community are low, the political standards will approximate them. The speeder who hands the arresting officer a $5 bill folded in his license is the same man who protests at corruption in government, McCormack said. Where Richardson places primary blame on the Massachusetts political structure, McCormack is more realistic...