Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...races, including 14 world championship Grand Prix events, driving for Mercedes-Benz, Maserati and Lotus, retired after a near fatal crash in 1962 that left his vision blurred and slowed his reflexes. He returned to the track last month, this time in a British race for saloon (sedan) cars, but did not finish because his Audi 80 broke down...
...intersection just outside the police barricades, a woman sat weeping behind the wheel of a late-model brown sedan. She wore a white surgical mask...
...hours later, shots rang out. While Housekeeper-Cook Suzanne van der Vreken phoned the police, her husband raced upstairs. He found Tarnower, clad in beige pajamas, lying between twin beds and dying from four bullet wounds. Van der Vreken rushed to the window and glimpsed a blue 1973 Chrysler sedan in the driveway...
...elements of an Agatha Christie mystery-an intimate dinner party at a country estate, followed by the shooting of the wealthy and well-known host-but there was no need for a Hercule Poirot to find the suspect. The police arrived in time to stop the sedan and arrest the driver. Her identity was a shocker: Jean Struven Harris, 56, the well-groomed headmistress of the prestigious Madeira School in suburban Washington, which for 74 years has educated the daughters of some of America's richest and most prominent families...
Every Tuesday for the past decade, the Soviet Academy of Sciences had dispatched an official car to pick up Physicist Andrei Sakharov and take him to one of the academy's weekly seminars. Last week, as his Volga sedan turned into Leninsky Prospekt toward the imposing 19th century academy building, uniformed militiamen halted the automobile, seized Sakharov and hustled him to the Moscow prosecutor's office. The 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner was under arrest, as the Kremlin at long last moved to silence the Soviet Union's most celebrated dissident...