Word: stow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bleached-blond Boy with bangs meets beach-bound Girl with bikini. They stow their surfboards in his "woodie" (a vintage paneled station wagon) and take off for Malibu. En route, a transistor radio beats out the tune that has been topping the charts nationwide, Jan and Dean's Surf City...
...parked car, drives exactly eleven inches, feels a mighty thump, realizes red-faced that one rear wheel is gone-the car was standing on a jack. In the end, Capannelle & Co. cop the swag, a matter of 80 million lire ($130,000), but only by dumb luck. They stow it in a suitcase and the suitcase in a baggage room. The check-"Hey!" hollers Gassman. "What did I do with the baggage check?" He put it in his pants pocket, that's what, and he forgot to take it out when he gave the pants to Capannelle. And that...
Gulped Up. At sea, waves smashed the Liberian tanker Gem into two pieces off Cape Hatteras. One officer was crushed trying to launch a lifeboat; 33 others were rescued - including one frightened stow away. A Beach Haven resident saw the sea carry off not only his house but his life savings of $30,000 hidden in it. Tele vision's temporarily retired personality, Dave Garroway. much more fortunate, sold his Long Island house for $39,000 one day before it was gulped up by the ocean...
Died. Harry Ferguson, 75. industrial visionary and inventor who made millions on a handshake agreement with a friend named Henry Ford; apparently of a heart attack; in his remote stone mansion near Stow-on-the-Wold, England. A farm boy like Ford, Irish-born Ferguson saw machines as vehicles for worldwide peace and plenty, tinkered early with autos and planes, invented a radically new, hydraulically controlled, lightweight tractor that was produced by Ford, and at 71 showed off the prototype of a rugged, gearless, turbine-powered "wonder car." Shy but stubborn, Ferguson sued Henry Ford...
...Stow-The foive and doyme...