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...come on, Mr. Sidey [May 6], y'all been generalizing about us down here. As born, bred and proud Southerners, we disapprove of Richard Nixon's sham presidency as much as any Yankee in Massachusetts or New York City. Why, we could round up a pickup truck full of pro-impeachment folk without leaving the county...
Though most board members still expect some pickup in production late this year, they doubt that it will be very strong. A revised Government estimate shows that real gross national product fell at an annual rate of 6.3%-one-half of 1% more than the original calculation -during the first quarter...
...pickup truck traveling on an Alabama highway at high speed went round a curve, spun out of control, and turned over into a ditch. The driver, Kenneth R. Barton, lay helpless, bleeding from an artery. State Trooper Kenyon M. Lassiter happened by in his patrol car and quickly applied a tourniquet. He eventually got Barton safely to a hospital, and was credited with saving his life...
...long ago, Trooper Lassiter stood by the side of a car he had stopped and was writing the driver a ticket when a pickup truck swerved across the road, struck the car Lassiter had stopped, and killed the trooper as he tried to duck behind his patrol car. The pickup truck bounced off the patrol car and kept on going. The next day the truck's driver turned himself in to the Covington County sheriff. He admitted he had been out the night before visiting several bars, but was unable to remember going home or who drove the truck...
...senior Cabinet member is normally one of Washington's more established rituals; the President himself usually presides at a special press conference with the smiling appointee at his side. Last week's announcement, by contrast, had all the pageantry of a White House laundry pickup. Neither Nixon nor Simon was even there. Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren slipped the news in at the regular 11 a.m. White House press briefing and acknowledged only after questioning that the President was "extremely proud" to nominate Simon...