Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pennsylvania truck farmer, husky (5 ft. 11½ in., 188 Ibs.) Roger Blough graduated from Susquehanna University, taught school for three years and then went to the Yale Law School (class of '31). He joined the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, lawyers for Big Steel, and was its associate counsel during the investigation of the steel industry by the Temporary National Economic Committee shortly before World War II. A methodical worker with a quiet wit and a knack for getting along with people, Blough became U.S. Steel's general solicitor in 1942, and executive vice president four...
With his sensitive performance in Marty, and now in Violent Saturday, Ernest Borgnine, 37, is giving moviegoers a satisfying look at a new facet of a talent hitherto largely devoted to villainous sneers. For an actor who looks like a beer-truck driver (he became an actor only because the refrigeration school he wanted to attend was too far from his New Haven home), the revelation may be just startling enough to launch a new career...
Loser Take All. In Marlboro, Md., Truck Driver John Sanford Jr., 33, was arrested for doing 50 m.p.h. in a 35-m.p.h. zone, was then charged with impeding traffic when he refused to drive more than 30 m.p.h. in a 50-m.p.h. zone on his way to the police station...
...entrance fee, each racer receives a map of the course and an identification number to keep him from cheating. Stationary and floating checkers use the numbers to identify any racer who hitches a ride on a truck or takes a short cut. If a racer is missed at any point along the course, no prize...
...Italy's biggest plant overthrew ten years of Communist leadership (TIME, April 11), started a chain reaction. In the industrial north, the anti-Communist rebellion swept through plant after plant, winning elections outright in some, scoring big gains in others. At Milan's Officina Meccànica (truck bodies), the Communist vote plummeted from a secure 80% last year to a minority 37%. Most significant yet was last week's vote at the Falck steel works in Sesto San Giovanni, an industrial suburb of Milan known as Italy's Little Stalingrad...