Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they do. All the used cars fetch higher prices than the sticker cost of a new car. Buyers in tailored overcoats roam among the aging Fiats, Opels, Czech Skodas and Polish Warszawas, checking out the odometers and the prices, which are listed on hand-lettered signs stuck behind the windshield. On a recent Sunday, for example, one man was trying to sell his 1977 Lada (a Soviet-built Fiat), with 6,000 kilometers on the clock, for $11,000; new-when available-the car sells for $5,570. "It's crazy," said one visitor to the car mart, adding...
Hailstones the size of baseballs smashed into the Southern Airways DC-9 so hard that they cracked the pilot's 1½-in.-thick windshield. Turbulence tossed the jet wildly, and the rain was so heavy that it was later described as "a wall of water." First the left engine failed, then the right. Fighting for control, Pilot William McKenzie, 54, tried to glide the 25-ton plane to a safe landing...
...driver should stay in second gear for as long as possible at speeds under 50 m.p.h.; when the car is in high gear, the generator does not produce enough energy to beef up the down-drawn cells. Never try to start the car when any accessories -heater, radio, windshield wipers-are turned on. Keep an aerosol can of ether in the car. You may not have to use it to fight off bears or buffaloes, but it can be a useful way to whiff alive a cold, dank motor...
...life by the tears of a dollmaker who is too poor to buy her sick daughter the oranges she dreams of. The dollmaker sends the puppy to be sold in a toy store. He manages to escape his new owner there as well as his fate as a windshield ornament. The rest of the story follows his efforts to get back to the little girl with the oranges that will make her well. Along the way the puppy encounters a sloe-eyed South American ballerina and her raffishly murderous boyfriend; he is betrayed by his best friend, a stuffed...
...first message was found last February on the windshield of his abandoned car: "I'm a rich man." That he was, emphatically. Richard Charles Rees had just walked off his job in San Mateo, Calif, as a guard on a Brinks armored car, and he had $516,305 in a champagne case tucked under his arm. Last week, after eleven months on the lam, Rees, 27, was under the strong arm of the law. FBI agents finally caught up with him in the tiny New Mexico town of Villanueva (pop. 300). His cash supply: just...