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...crisis brought real pain. Shortage-caused layoffs spread into the auto, electronics, rubber and aluminum industries. Traveling was rapidly becoming a nightmare because of gasless Sundays, airline flight cancellations and, most spectacularly, a series of highway blockades in the East, Midwest and South staged by owner-drivers of heavy trailer trucks...
...continuing illegal highway blockades. "Holding the public hostage because there is a fuel shortage would be totally irresponsible and counterproductive," says Thomas C. Schumacher Jr., managing director of the California Trucking Association. Such talk does not impress the truckers. One driver, sitting in the cab of a tractor-trailer that was blocking traffic approaching the Delaware Memorial Bridge last week, said: "We want Nixon and his people, when they turn on their television sets, to hear...
Road Show. America on the Move covered the country in a 40-ft. tractor-trailer painted red, white and blue and draped from one end to the other with American flags. Inside, visitors were treated to an inspirational film short narrated by McMahon; they could also pick up pamphlets on drug abuse, ecology and patriotism. The road show got rave reviews as it made its way across the continent. On Christmas night, it was publicized by a TV show celebrating the Teamsters. McMahon hosted, and such stars as Sammy Davis Jr. and Debbie Reynolds performed. The caravan was scheduled...
...Swint take precautions in getting to his job as general manager of the Ford subsidiary, Transax, in Cordoba. When he left for work on Thanksgiving Day, his chauffeur-driven car was followed by another car carrying two well-armed bodyguards. As the two cars prepared to pass a parked trailer truck obstructing one side of the road, a red Chevrolet pickup truck flashed past them, then swung across the road, completely blocking it. From behind, two Fiats drew up, cutting off any retreat. The ambush was complete...
...well-dressed man got out of the cabin of the trailer truck and opened up on Swint's car with a machine...