Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article concerning the Chowchilla, Calif., kidnaping case, you state that after unearthing the tractor-trailer in which the children and bus driver were held captive, "investigators quickly traced it to the Palo Alto Transfer & Storage Co." How much tracing was necessary considering the fact that in bold letters across the front of the truck was written PALO ALTO TRANSFER AND STORAGE COMPANY...
...passed over at near zero hour in the Veepstakes did nothing to enhance it. Severely disappointed, Baker signaled his intention to seek the presidency in 1980 and vowed: "If ever again I get involved in a presidential race, I can promise you I'll be in the driver's seat." He may make a third bid to become Republican Senate leader when Hugh Scott retires next January. If so, he will risk another setback: tradition favors elevation of the No. 2 man, Minority Whip Robert Griffin...
...announced that he was staging a rerun of his own. Next afternoon, he took blonde, leggy British model Susan Hunt, as his third wife. Burton, who won a quickie Haitian divorce from his two-time wife Elizabeth Taylor in July, and Hunt, recently divorced from British Race Car Driver James ("The Shunt") Hunt, were married in Arlington, Va. Less exotic than his last wedding reception (Burton and Taylor celebrated their remarriage in Botswana last October with two hippos in attendance), the modest guest list in Arlington included Hunt's erstwhile escort Brooke Williams...
...through the fence for interrogation. Several days later, a young Hamburg musician tried to engage an East German border guard in a chat about Western music. The response: a fusillade that sent the musician scrambling to safety in some nearby bushes. In the most recent incident, an Italian truck driver, who happened to be a member of the Communist Party, crossed legally into West Germany at a checkpoint in Bavaria, but then he was called back by the Eastern border guards. As he walked toward the checkpoint, the guards inexplicably opened fire and killed...
More reports, fresh frissons: a New Jersey truck driver, Richard Wells of Turnersville, was hospitalized with severe fever and other symptoms of the unknown illness; so was Aldo Provenzano, 46, of Cherry Hill, N.J. Wells had delivered food to one of the hotels where Legionnaires stayed during the convention; Provenzano works in Philadelphia and had lunch in at least one restaurant patronized by Legionnaires. A New York State couple who attended the convention had to be hospitalized. A hot line set up by Philadelphia city officials to handle requests for information logged up to 400 calls an hour...