Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ambitious son of a successful used-car dealer, Allen, 39, is one of nine American leaders of the Baha'i faith, a Persian religion resembling Unitarianism that advocates world brotherhood and universal education. A Stanford graduate, he joined the ed school faculty there, ran the Peace Corps training program, and continually tried to inspire public schools to break up their rigid schedules. The "modular" class system he advocates−16-to 20-minute periods that can be endlessly recombined for different subjects−is now used in 500 schools, from Temple City, Calif., to Sarasota...
...capture for over a decade by studying the gamekeepers−their habits, their movements, their hours spent in the pubs−as closely as he did the geese. From this intelligence he formed a kind of primer for poachers: "Know your ground, your ditches, your roadways on which a car can approach in the evenings without its headlights on. Never go to the same place twice running. The keeper will find your footprints, and the next night he'll be waiting for you." For all his precautions, Thorpe found the law waiting on more than one occasion. Once...
...West legally responsible for Smith's death? Hardly. In the eyes of the law, the proper defendants in the killing were the victim's buddies−not only the wounded Daniels, but also Alvin Taylor, who, according to police, was sitting outside in the getaway car...
Very cagily−since by this time I was certain that Howard knew every detail about my every move−I booked to Phoenix not on TWA but on United. When I got there, I rented not a Hertz or an Avis but a local firm's car. I drove to the Luce home not by established routes but by enormous circles. Then I drove to the back of the circular driveway and hid my rented Ford behind a large lilac bush...
...company's present good fortune with the Maverick and the Pinto, profits are being squeezed hard by rising costs and Government pressure for safety and antipollution development. Just after his appointment. lacocca declined a $100 bet on whether Henry Ford's prediction of a 9.7-million-car year was possible in 1971. "Consumers have the money," he said, "but in their present mood it is doubtful that they will spend it. We have just finished an auto strike, and the steel industry is unsettled. There is certainly no impetus to spend money...