Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even before Donnelley's 64-page presses start up on Sunday, identical Vinylite molds are on their way by commercial and chartered planes to our other U.S. printing plants, in Washington, Los Angeles, Albany, and Old Saybrook, Conn. In case of hopeless flying weather, the molds go by truck to the nearest clear airport...
...last week in the mountainous realm of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. The Lion of Judah knows how to roll out a red carpet -and indeed when Queen Elizabeth II's bellowing VC-IO jetliner appeared over Addis Ababa last week, an Ethiopian army truck was still nudging its way through the airport crowd with yards and yards of the stuff...
...harpsichord. Ferrante and Teicher have been playing in unison ever since they were sixyear-old prodigies studying together at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music After twelve years and repeated prodding from teachers, they decided to become professional duo-pianists. In 1948 they bought an old delivery truck loaded on their Steinways and hit the road. They played in gymnasiums, churches, cafeterias, ballparks, even a boxing ring. In the first dozen years they went through three trucks, twelve motors, and too few square meals "If our wives hadn't worked," says Teicher "we never could have survived...
...outside aid is Arua (pop. 8,000), an otherwise sleepy town in western Uganda where the Lugbara tribeswomen still go bare-breasted and men hunt monkeys with bows and arrows. Somewhat reluctantly, the Uganda government has allowed Arua to become a haven for Simba warriors, who come in by truck and Jeep from the Congolese town of Aru just across the border, load up on food and liquor, then, after sleeping it off in a tin-roofed "refugee center," truck contentedly back. TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath, who drove to Arua last week, found several bearded Simbas in monkeyskin caps gulping...
...satisfy thirsty Americans, huge quantities of Beefeater gin are shipped across the Atlantic from Britain each year-in railroad cars. The British load their spirits onto a new kind of U.S. freight car called the Flexi-Van, which is hauled to port by truck, loaded onto a ship, fitted with train wheels in the U.S. and sped to its destination over the rails. Thanks to such innovations, U.S. railroads are not only hauling merchandise directly from such countries as Japan, Egypt and Italy, but also carrying a broad range of domestic goods-from candy to sewing machines-that they lost...