Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Dubček conservative, rounded up 40 security agents to run errands for the Soviets, an underground station broadcast all of their license-plate numbers. A truck driver who recognized one plate bore down on the car and rammed it against a brick wall with his two-ton trailer...
...talking about the "erosion" of Nixon's strength. The most accurate count, as it turned out, was by the Nixon organization, which earlier had talked about 700 and privately refined its calculations to 702. Needed to be nominated: 667. As the nominating speeches droned on, Nixon visited his command trailer outside the hall and got word that a first-ballot victory was assured...
...cold-eyed when a nominator mentioned Nelson Rockefeller's undefeated election record, Ronald Reagan's mother-in-law chanting "We want Reagan!" ABC also had its moments with a couple of prefilmed reports, including the only network penetration into a caucus (Idaho) and into the Nixon command trailer, which resembled a bookie joint...
...sounds were the melting strains of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. The music was provided by the 90-piece New Jersey Symphony, led by young (35) Negro Conductor Henry Lewis, performing in a huge portable concert shell that can be folded and packed up into a single oversized trailer...
...Special Weapons and Tactics), designed to pick off snipers and to eliminate, presumably, the need for indiscriminate police gunfire, which took innocent victims in Newark and Detroit last year. On the target range they can hit the head of a man's silhouette at 300 yards. A $25,000 trailer has been fitted out as a mobile command post, with an armored underside to fend off Molotov cocktails, and a smaller van is available for secondary commanders. Fibre shields, straight out of Ivanhoe, and bulletproof vests have been bought for men in danger areas. The force this summer will have...