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PALM SUNDAY. Like so many undergraduates before homecoming, parisinoners have put together floats and costumes for a parade around the church parking lot and right into the sanctuary. At the tail end comes a flower-festooned forklift truck; Father Quinlan, standing atop the truck's raised platform and waving a green branch, symbolizes Christ entering the Holy City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Closing a Clerical Show | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...Creme" on top and "Bronze Starflake" below (and a sign: DO NOT TOUCH THIS CAR UNLESS YOU ARE COMPLETELY NUDE!). Near by a crowd is gathering in front of the "Archie Bunker Hard Hat Hauler." The Hauler features a lunch-bucket gas tank, a chromed hard-hat roof, a forklift front bumper and a 500-h.p. Chrysler hemi-head engine with Triple GMC 671 blowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Auto Shows: They Love Speed | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...sunset, 40 FBI agents had coordinated an attack on the plane, which was parked at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Two agents, posing as relief pilots, boarded through the side door from a forklift truck, while others stormed up the rear gangway. Sibley, wounded in the shoulder and leg, was taken to the hospital. When it was announced that no one else had been injured in the shootout, the crowd of observers broke into applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKYJACKING: Stopping Mad Dogs | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

When a flight of four Phantoms lands on the twin 10,000-ft. runways, the planes quickly taxi to rows of protective concrete revetments. Once a plane is safely parked, the pilot climbs out and is handed a cold can of Budweiser. While he sips the brew, a yellow forklift truck trundles up with armaments, and the ground crew hurriedly rearms the Phantom with an awesome array of weaponry-iron bombs, rockets and napalm canisters. Normally, the entire operation takes only 20 minutes. The beer never gets warm before the pilot climbs back into his Phantom to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Air War: To See Is to Destroy | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...inclination-they will be able to plow their fields with American farm tractors, use U.S.-made fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides and even import American livestock for breeding purposes. They can equip their offices with U.S.-made desks, typewriters, check writers, telephones and simple calculators, outfit their factories with American forklift vehicles and a wide assortment of U.S. machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Shopping List for Peking | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

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