Word: drove
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah has ventured out rarely, but when he goes out for the simplest of reasons, so goes the entourage: when he walked his Great Dane on the island's main beach last week, ten security men walked with hun and a red sedan filled with more guards drove behind. It is a measure of the Shah's exile that in those circumstances any place can feel like home...
Tired of driving to work bumper to bumper? Envious of those zigzagging Corvettes, Porsches and Ferraris that smoke past you in the fast lane? Well, cheer up, bunkies. Last week on a dry lake bed at California's Edwards Air Force Base, Hollywood Stunt Man Stan Barrett, 36, drove a car at 739.666 m.p.h. to become the first person ever to break the sound barrier on land. Barrett's car will not be in showrooms quite yet. The three-wheel vehicle was powered by a rocket engine as well as a Sidewinder missile to throw it into supersonic...
...rally at a soccer stadium. Carrying Khomeini posters, some 4,000 people-hardly a crowd by Iranian standards-gathered in the middle of the field. Suddenly, they were charged by some 2,000 Azerbaijanis waving Sharietmadari posters and chanting "Down with Bani-sadr!" Gradually, a phalanx of Khomeini supporters drove the Sharietmadari forces out of the stadium...
...years, Irving and Annette Herman drove around Bridgeport, Conn., in cars whose license plates bore the first two letters of each of their names: IRAN...
...Traveling by motorcycle and by car, without escort except for a 20-mile stretch near the Thai border, Labbe first rode from Sai- Saigon to Phnom-Penh, where he shot pictures of the devastated Cambodian capital beginning to stir to life again amid the rubble of war. He then drove along Cambodia's main arteries, Highways 5 and 6, visiting twelve provinces in a journey that totaled 1,000 miles...