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...accident-free record in that time. If a driver wins his class here, he and his family will be sent by his company to the National Truck Roadeo in Minneapolis this fall. Massachusetts's only national champion, Mel Thompson, is out this year because he smashed up his rig several months...
...truths. Mainly, that whatever speculators were hearing about the future of silver in 1969, it was largely piped misinformation from a handful of supersophisticated con men. In his novel, the lords of both the underworld and over-world put aside hurt pride to concentrate on profit by colluding to rig the market. All those dentists, airline pilots and what Erdman gleefully calls "greedy widows" who invested in silver futures never stood a chance. The odds of beating the professionals were about the same as a man in a wheelchair getting a football through the Miami Dolphins' defense...
...began driving trucks when he was 18 years old, picking up milk for a wholesale company. When he was 20, he bought his own tractor-trailer rig. Over the next few years, he hauled various commodities, including produce, furniture and comic books, to various parts of the country. He joined and left the International Brotherhood of Teamsters twice during that time...
...defending national champ eight of cox Nancy Hadley, stroke Alison Hill, seven Allison Hall, six Wiki Royden, five Jenny Getsinger, four Katie Moss, three Connie Cervilla, two Judith Ames, and bow Marie Adams will undergo a minor shake-up for the race. Baker has straight-rigged the boat, changing it from the German rig he employed all season...
Everyone dreams all the time, say the authors, so the prudent citizen eager for a dispatch from the future will go back to bed, close his eyes and pay attention. It may be possible to rig the game; there seems to be no rule against trying to dream of nasturtiums ("an unusual sexual experience"), garbage ("future success") and buffaloes ("large profits are forecast"), while avoiding grasshoppers ("confusion and complexities ahead") and giraffes ("a warning not to meddle in other people's affairs...