Word: clymer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...independent truckers, who own their rigs and are fiercely proud of going it alone, but the action was damaging enough. Pickets closed giant fuel terminals in Niles, Mich., cutting off deliveries of gasoline and diesel fuel to southwestern Michigan and northwestern In diana. Said Niles Mayor Larry Clymer: "I'm sitting here biting my nails. What we got is a snowstorm in the middle of June. Nobody can go anywhere." In Connecticut, truckers effectively blocked off five major fuel terminals. In Massachusetts and Maine, produce shipments dropped 40%. Hog deliveries in the Corn Belt were off by 75%. California...
Back in the press bus on the way to Logan,, Powell, New York Timesman R.W. "Johnny" Apple, Baltimore Sun man Adam Clymer '58, and Washington Post ace Jules Witcover sought refuge in the back of the bus. Witcover, who had just arrived "two days ago" in the Northeast, brooded in the back, but Apple and Powell traded banter...