Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samuel Powel III '61, of Rockford, Illinois, was killed in an auto accident while driving home for Christmas vacation Wednesday night. Driving alone, Powel apparently fell asleep at the wheel and ran into the back of a truck...
...Anne's Hospital 16 blocks from the school, waited for word of dead and injured. Doctors rushed children into surgery. Nurses parted crowds to wheel beds carrying children and plasma poles. Priests moved slowly from group to group, lips moving. One man in the crowd, a truck driver, said: "I heard it on the radio. I come straight home. I told my wife, 'Where's the daughter at?' I looked here. She got a little burned on the side." Another screamed at his wife: "Why didn't you keep her home today?" A nurse came...
...Promise . . ." One morning last week, in a northern sierra of this awakened land, twelve Tarahumare Indians, famed for their fleet feet, rose at dawn and began running south. Six days later (with an assist from a truck) they chuffed into the capital to honor the grand inauguration of Mexico's new President, Adolfo López Mateos, 48. It was a ceremony worthy of the effort. The setting was Mexico City's famed Palacio de Bellas Artes, an Italianate pile of marble as remote from today's Mexico as an igloo, despite murals by the famed...
...approach to foreign affairs is part of the legacy of Gardner Cowles Sr., onetime school superintendent with a talent for real estate, who founded the family empire in 1903 by paying $300,000 for the faltering Des Moines Register & Leader. After World War I, when the Midwest wanted no truck with foreign alliances, the elder Cowles backed the League of Nations, argued that Iowa's crop surpluses meant that the state would inevitably be entangled with nations abroad. John and Gardner ("Mike") Cowles expanded to new monopoly in Minneapolis during the early '40s, effectively ran the family enterprise...
Sleep Stopper. An ear alarm to keep truck drivers and night watchmen from dozing was put on sale by Wright Airborne Electronics, Kansas City, Mo. Called Driver-Larm, the device contains mercury that rolls about when the head nods, and closes a transistorized circuit sounding a buzz in the wearer's ear. Price...