Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army, which will have operational responsibility for the system, makes no apologies for the amount of time involved. "Some of the people on the Hill think that all you have to do with a missile site is plug in for water and electricity as you do at a trailer park," said one officer. The fact is, said another, that "the ABM requires a more complicated system than that needed to land a man on the moon...
...rugged hills near Piaxtla, an isolated village in the state of Puebla, a modern auto recently pulled a bright orange trailer toward a group of waiting campesinos. They unhitched the trailer, hooked it up to a pair of brown oxen, and the animals plodded to the top of a hill overlooking the town...
Along the road below, all of Piaxtla's residents cheered the trailer's arrival-and with good reason. It was a mobile school, the first in the village's history...
...them accessible only by all but impassable dirt roads. But the isolation of the campesino is slowly breaking down. Fathers urge their sons to get some basic schooling so that they can land jobs in the nation's expanding industries and urban areas. Thus when a school trailer arrives in a village for its 31-month stay, it becomes a popular social center. The young children sit under an awning attached to the trailer for basic Spanish instruction in the morning, older youths return from farm chores to study in the afternoon, adults gather at night...
Worst hit were the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn and the nearby town of Belvidere. At Oak Lawn, a swirling funnel smashed a shopping center, ripped up a trailer park and slammed into a roller-skating rink filled with youngsters. It left at least 30 dead, several of them teen-agers with roller skates still strapped to their feet. At Belvidere, the tornado sliced through five subdivisions and a supermarket, severely damaged a hospital, nicked an auto plant, and then headed toward the local high school, where students were just finishing the day. "A girl fell and somebody said...