Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Military-truck slippage...
Tuesday is Father Hofstee's day off. He climbs into his battered Dodge truck and bounces 20 miles south over the rough road to Manila, where he spends the day doing errands for his lepers, visiting their relations and raising money. The four years he has been there have made quite a difference in Tala. The village is a community now, instead of a human dump heap. Though the population has increased by more than 100%, the lepers are well housed and well fed, with a library, two schools, a nursery, weekly dances, movies and an elected government which...
...Negrini and the girl for whom he had doffed his priestly habit (TIME, Aug. 13) began a new career last week-selling ready-tied neckties. The Super Record Tiemakers of Bologna announced that they were sending Negrini and Claire Young around to retailers and rural fairs in a sound truck to peddle their wares...
Hill decided to make his craft as light as possible, to clear the rocks and bob quickly to the surface after the 162-ft. drop. He fashioned a cylinder of 13 truck-tire inner tubes held together with netting, fitted it with an air mattress, christened it The Thing. This week a crowd of more than 100,000 Sunday sightseers gathered for two miles along the banks of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls to watch the show; Hill's mother was among them...
...says Lanza. "My pop said, 'Look Fred, at least make the gesture.' So I figured, after all, I never worked in my life, this might be all right. Incidentally, I have a conscience-and neighbors talk, too." But Freddy was on his grandfather's delivery truck only a week and three days when Teacher Williams tracked him down in great excitement. Dr. Serge Koussevitzky was conducting at the Philadelphia Academy of Music that night; Music Patron Dr. John Noble and Concert Manager William Huff, who had heard Freddy, wanted him to sing for the conductor...