Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odometer read 85,723, the generator and oil-pressure gauges glowed red in the dashboard. In the driver's seat was an alert, life-size white plaster driver, both hands on the wheel, right foot hovering over the accelerator. As viewers looked over his shoulders at the windshield, they shared a Cineramic ride through city streets, as lights, cars and bright neon signs whizzed...
...Vanguard pulled out pistols, shot down Head, then his partner, Temporary Detective Constable David Wombwell, 25, as he rushed to help. Still in the squad car, Constable Geoffrey Fox, 41, gunned his engine in a desperate attempt to run down the killers; a bullet through the windshield stopped him dead. Before the Vanguard roared off, said a witness, one black-bearded hood coolly "got into the police car and drove over one of the men on the road...
...Rhapsody in the Rain, for example, was banned by many radio stations because, as the program director for WLS in Chicago, Gene Taylor, explains, "There was no question about what the lyrics and the beat implied-sexual intercourse in a car, making love to the rhythm of the windshield wipers." A tougher test is the Rolling Stones' I Can't Get No Satisfaction, which has sold 4.5 million copies, with Lead Singer Mick Jagger wailing, "I'm tryin' to make some girl." Difficulty was, Tagger's diction is so slurred that many stations unwittingly played...
George Romney, LL.D., Governor of Michigan. He is one American leader who believes that vision is to be found by looking through the windshield rather than into the rearview mirror...
...Manhattan's scintillating La Caravelle restaurant, while her Secret Service escort went around the corner for a less Lucullan lunch. Their rented Mercury stayed put in a "no parking-tow away" zone. Along came Patrolman Joseph Polly, and by the time Lynda had finished her meal the windshield wiper wore a green $15 parking ticket...