Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hakhel-for the first time since King Agrippa presided over the rites in 42 A.D. This year, since none of the Israeli government leaders is strictly Orthodox, the head of the state was represented by Jerusalem's chief cantor, who read the Torah from the top of a truck. As he finished, old men blew on the double ram's-horn. Pilgrims wearing rich prayer shawls cried out in jubilation, dancing and clapping their hands to the jangling of tambourines...
...helter-skelter chases-e.g., from an off-limits Japanese bathhouse to an airport-are conducted by practically every means of locomotion from foot to Army truck. Also involved are a renegade American (Russell Johnson) smuggling explosives into North Korea, a slinky Eurasian (Mari Blanchard), a harassed MP major (Vaughn Taylor) and an apoplectic general (Barry Kelley...
Clues. In Joplin, Mo., Police Radio Dispatcher Jim Miller broadcast the description of a stolen vehicle, wasn't surprised when police quickly found it: a bright red truck with a load of lumber topped by three bathtubs...
...Silent Hours. No candidate, the committee ruled, would be permitted to: 1) spend more than $1,500 on his campaign; 2) make more than three five-minute radio speeches, or more than a total of 60 speeches in his entire campaign, 3) hire more than one sound truck or more than 15 workers to stand on it and shout his name and bow to the citizenry, 4) print more than 10,000 election postcards, 5) use banners larger than 8 ft. by 2½ ft., or Japanese lanterns-for night parades-higher than 30 in., 6) talk to voters...
...mass production (i.e., a standard design and precut parts) to his houses plus a liberal use of the new "do it yourself" idea (TIME, June 30 et seq.). His men grade the site and lay a concrete slab foundation, which is left to dry for a week. Then a truck dumps off floor beams, wall sections and other parts of a house. In 27 minutes two men bolt the frames together, throw up the walls and hoist the roof in place. Insulating material, then three coats of stucco are put on the walls, while other crews put in wiring...