Word: cab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...runaway hit of the show was easily Segal's creation, The Truck. It consisted of the actual cab of a red panel truck that Segal had found in a junkyard. Inside, the 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...
...bring off the joy ride, Segal had rigged a small film projector and mirror arrangement to the right of the cab, which beamed the movie onto the truck's frosted windshield. Watching it, one housewife confided: "That's the way my husband drives." Chuckled a young executive: "I go through that every night." Juror Martin Friedman, director of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, put it another way: "I found it very moving. Actually," he said, "by treating the man almost as a ghost, as a calcified figure, Segal presents you with reality, then questions the existence of reality...
...Abusive in Five Languages," which has already sold some 50,000 copies across the Atlantic, promises to sell thousands more in its forthcoming U.S. edition. With 127 pages of snappish asperities in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, the Insult Dictionary provides useful tips for conversations with surly cab drivers, arrogant bank tellers, clumsy hairdressers, nose-picking grocers and road hogs...
...Convair 880s for immediate delivery when General Dynamics repossessed them from troubled Northeast Airlines. The planes helped TWA catch up in the equipment race. Still, TWA continued to lose money, and for a time Tillinghast seriously talked merger with Pan American. Before the deal jelled, the CAB flashed a red light, and as airline business picked up in 1963, the idea died...
That is a lesson the railroads never really applied, and the Civil Aeronautics Board means to see that the airlines do not repeat the error. Though some critics insist that airline fares should be slashed across the board, the CAB so far has settled for approving almost any cut-rate special fare, and the prospects that this policy will change look small. Grumbles Delta Chairman C. E. Woolman: "There's everything but a fare for left-handed people with large heads...