Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that will distract the attention of the would from our great issues"). Delegations from towns and foreign countries were issued varicolored identifying arm bands. Trucks carried baggage. An ambulance corps was on hand to minister to blisters on the fourday hike. Mobile canteens provided tea and cakes at cost. Overnight the demonstrators slept in rented schoolrooms, man and maid often bedded down side by side on bare floors...
...jobs when they took away the rails' auto-hauling business, assures complainants that "trucks will continue to handle the majority of the volume of car shipments." On hauls of up to 300 miles, trucks are still more economical; but for anything longer, when drivers must be put up overnight, rails win hands down. Even Hoffa's $5 tax will not cut seriously into the savings on long hauls...
...crowd of 20,000 Afrikaners that what had occurred in London had actually been a South African "victory." Obviously relieved by Macmillan's assurances that Britain did not intend to end its preferential tariff agreements with South Africa despite the Commonwealth split, Verwoerd seemed to have changed overnight from a lifelong Anglophobe to a bright, new Anglophile. Fondling a bulldog given him by a London "admirer," he spoke emotionally of his affection for Macmillan, explained that by leaving the Commonwealth he had actually done "our British friends" a favor by easing the pressure brought to bear on Macmillan...
...Australian singing contest, headed for Britain to study at London's Royal College of Music and landed a $28-a-week small-parts job at London's Covent Garden. She "jogged along" until 1958, when she became an overnight sensation in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor...
Swift Spadework. Forest Lawn ran into homeowner opposition in both places but quelled it by a slick trick. Since "six or more bodies being buried in any one place constitute a cemetery" under California law. Forest Lawn shoved the bodies of six indigents underground overnight when it won preliminary cemetery permits in both towns. The residents thus had no chance to appeal. To head off Covina opposition, Forest Lawn bought the land last May un der an individual's name, filed the deed in its name last November, the same day that it filed rezoning requests with...