Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sidelines stood her shirtsleeved young husband. Truck Driver Pete Win ters. "I've been trying to learn it, sighed, "but I can't seem...
...fact that I did not have TIME, May 31, I missed seeing the piece [on Prince Bernhard's auto accident: "Trying to pass a road truck . . . he zigged when he should have zagged"]. I now am receiving [copies of it] from quite a few friends in the U.S. with a certain amount of biting comment, which I would gladly accept if it had been my fault. However, I enclose an eyewitness report (American), and in view of that, I don't think it is fair to write as you did, as it apparently gives me the reputation...
...Reports the U.S. Army's Lieut. Colonel Hugh G. Martin Jr., who happened to be driving behind Prince Bernhard's black Lincoln: "Close to 100 yds. ahead of my car was a large truck . . . The Lincoln was in the left lane of the highway about 15 yds. behind it attempting to pass, when the truck drifted slowly to the left without signaling. The driver of the Lincoln applied the brakes strongly . . . The truck continued to move to the left, [and] the Lincoln was forced off the highway with the left wheels going into the sand. The truck continued...
...orchestra generally tours for two weeks at a time, then returns to Stuttgart in its two buses and 6 by 6 truck "to take the dents out of our instruments." The players carry their own music racks and chairs wherever they go, pay for instrument repairs and similar incidentals out of their own pockets. "The hardest job is to convince people that we're a symphony orchestra and not a band," explains the orchestra's advance man, Sergeant Regis Cronauer. "At one post they wanted us to play in an abandoned hangar that had become a bird sanctuary...
...belonged to an art-loving Moscow grain merchant named Serge Stchoukine. When the magnate's daughter Irene Stchoukine, who now lives in Paris, started legal proceedings to get back what she considers her rightful inheritance, the Iron Curtain clanged down. One day last week a little black truck sped up to the gallery door, loaded all the disputed Picassos aboard and whisked them off to the Soviet embassy. There, the paintings were back on Soviet soil, where Heiress Stchoukine has no more chance of collecting than a Czarist bond holder...