Word: trailerized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. T. Ashton Thompson, 49, Democratic Congressman from Louisiana's 7th District (Lake Charles) since 1952, champion of wildlife conservation; of injuries sustained when he was struck by a swerving tractor-trailer while standing on a parking strip off a 4-lane highway talking to a patrolman who had stopped him for speeding; on Interstate 85, near Gastonia...
...modern plumbing. Because the late John D. Rockefeller Jr. fell in love with the area and set up a nonprofit corporation to provide facilities, visitors now have a wide choice of accommodations, ranging from the richly rustic Jenny Lake Lodge ($40 a day double, with two meals) to a trailer park with water, sewer and electrical connections ($2.25 a day). After-dark activity is limited, but a square dance, movie or concert generally can be found. During the day there is fishing, boating, horseback riding and nature hikes conducted by park rangers, but a favorite pastime of almost everybody...
...original flight plan had directed McDivitt to stay close to the booster, which was the size of a house trailer and was rigged with 2,500,000-candle-power lights so that it could be seen for 300 miles. It was contemplated that White, during his space walk, might touch the trailing booster. If he had, it would have been a significant step toward i rendezvous between two spacecraft...
...screen impersonator of Adolf Hitler in World War II movies (The Devil with Hitler. The Hitler Gang), a onetime vaudevillian (from Springfield, 111.), whose striking resemblance to der Fuhrer caused so much heckling that he ate in his dressing room and spent his nonworking hours alone in a trailer he named Berchtesgaden; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...spoofs are there, though, and the knowledgeable may enjoy picking them out. The trailer truck which pursued Brando down a dark alley in On the Waterfront turns into a garbage truck which swallows victims with its packing mechanism. The same truck later dies the slow death of the Creature from the Black Lagoon...