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Thus did Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman Jr. explain an odd-sounding ruling last week. He admitted that air bags-which inflate instantly upon impact of a collision, keeping the driver and front-seat riders from being hurled against the dashboard or windshield-might save an estimated 12,000 lives a year if installed on all U.S.-made cars. Nonetheless, he refused to order such universal installation. Instead, Coleman asked the car companies to outfit 500,000 cars with air bags during the next two model years, in what would amount to a mass test...
...time that Kubacki had generated an offense. It's simply that this was the only time when it showed on the scoreboard, as most of the 255 total offensive yards and 18 first downs came between the 20-yard lines. Nothing, in other words, outside the reach of the windshield wipers...
...tipster wasn't at the Clarendon House, but he did receive a phone call. Bolles told the caller to go to the state capitol and went back to get in his car. He backed up a few feet, then turned his wheels. An explosion blew out the windshield, blew a two-foot hole under the driver's seat. Doctors amputated one leg, an arm, another leg, to save his life. He developed pneumonia. Finally, on June 13, he died. Curiosity killed Don Bolles...
...before his uncle, an ex-Marine sharpshooter and lifetime member of the NRA (at a cost of $200) began blasting away with his ninehundred dollar 25-06 deer rifle. A tire went fwooo, and Bell clunked along on three wheels. Christ, he's serious, thought Bell, and the rear windshield sprayed glass over him. I wish I was on some Australian mountain range ran through his mind and Bell, who liked Hank Williams but liked Dylan more, bailed out the passenger side, into the lawn bordering the driveway. Just then his uncle, sighting down the Redfield 3x9 that made...
...nineties, gangs of roving youths in white and black neighborhoods stoned more cars. A 17-year-old mentally retarded girl was struck in the face when a gang of blacks surrounded a car driven by her father and one of them hurled a piece of pavement through the windshield. Admitted to Boston City with a fractured skull, by week's end she was listed in fair condition. Frank Meehan, a white man, was dragged from his car and stabbed by four black youths in the Roslindale section. In an apparently unrelated episode, an explosion ripped through a wall...