Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearts & Heads. While this commission, under the chairmanship of Sir Ernest Gowers, pondered the problem, traveling to many corners of the world in its search for facts, convicted killers went to the gallows, and one such case became a celebrated indictment of capital punishment. A young truck driver named Timothy Evans was hanged in 1950 for the murder of his 14-month-old daughter, largely on the testimony of one John Christie, who, Evans swore, was the real killer. Three years later Christie himself was hanged for another murder, and new evidence made it almost certain that...
...executives, and to wish a little wistfully sometimes that they were his to solve. Force of Arms, Submarine Command, Boots Malone-his face, though it was slowly maturing, was still his misfortune. "Do me a favor, Bill," a director wisecracked. "Go on over to Sunset Boulevard and let a truck run over that kisser...
PLANE CHARTER will soon be as easy and inexpensive as renting a bus, truck or boat. Under a system set up by the Aircoach Transport Association, charter groups will no longer have to deal with scattered individual airlines, rarely pay expensive ferrying costs to fly empty planes back from outlying points. Instead, ACTA will act as a general agent for more than 30 nonscheduled lines, be able to pick the nearest available plane and charter it for as little as 2½? per passenger mile...
...Cure. In Victoria, B.C., Norris Harwood was fined $35 for careless driving after he took his car out at 4 a.m. to end an attack of insomnia, smashed into a parked truck when he fell asleep at the wheel...
...very pale blue eyes, slightly bloodshot from staring out over the vast open spaces he inhabited professionally, he bowed and sank into a chair. He went down massively, like a wounded elephant." Tiny is staggered by his fee-$1,800, which includes native servants, gear, a car and a truck. But since it is an anniversary present, her husband insists on their having a "luxury" safari...