Word: riggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been bringing, wildcatting has taken on a new frenzy. Much of the world's unexplored oil wealth lies largely offshore, and this winter hundreds of hopeful gamblers are working round the clock in the freezing storms of the Canadian continental shelf. TIME Correspondent James Wilde recently visited one rig 96 miles southwest of Halifax, N.S. His report...
ROAD MOVIE is a pitifully clumsy yarn about a couple of truckers (Robert Drivas, Barry Bostwick), the hooker they pick up for relaxation (Regina Baff), and the interstate agonies of owning a rig and trying to haul your freight to Chicago on time - before the gas crisis. Director Joseph Strick has made several other films (The Balcony, Ulysses), although it is not apparent here. Road Movie is a shambling hour and a half padded out with highway footage photographed from the truck's cab. The woman's character is the most interesting in the film, though there...
...Bridgeville, Del.; earlier, another driver was killed when a large rock was thrown at his windshield and his truck crashed. Other truckers have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds; the most recent victim was Lawrence Huff, 48, who was wounded in the stomach by a sniper as he drove his rig near East Liverpool, Ohio. Still other drivers were dragged from their cabs and beaten. Strikers waited guard at truck stops in the Midwest; sometimes, if a driver refused to join the walkout, his tires were slashed, or his radiator was punctured, or his truck was overturned. Part of the underpinning...
...Americans to have their incomes directly reduced by the fuel crisis (see box page 33). Their protests seemed spontaneous; both the Teamsters Union and the American Trucking Association publicly disavowed them. But the drivers have their own informal communications network: the Citizen's Band radios that link them rig-to-rig as they roll along. Last week those radios crackled with calls to revolt by parking tractor-trailers across turnpikes and barricading traffic. After the first major jam was organized Monday by a driver (known to other truckers as River Rat) on a stretch of Interstate 80 near Blakeslee...
Highballing down a turnpike in his own $30,000 rig, the open countryside flashing by, the air conditioning and stereo on, old buddies to meet at the next truck stop, a good load in back and the promise of maybe $20,000 in profit at the end of the year-a man could do worse. But times now are anything but flush, and the truckers have suddenly turned into the angriest and most disruptive group of protesters in the nation...