Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down a road in the rebel-infested northern Congo rolled a truckload of mercenaries led by three armored Jeeps. Suddenly the underbrush exploded with the fire of automatic weapons. Not a bullet was wasted on the Jeeps, but the Simbas, suddenly battlewise and well armed, riddled the truck, killing one of its nine occupants and wounding six others. Almost overnight, the spear-bearing rebel warriors had become better armed, better trained, and much more dangerous. "Every Simba in the north seems to have a new gun now," said a mercenary sergeant from Paulis. "We're finding their old Mausers...
...week 18 planeloads-about 300 tons-of Russian-and Czech-made automatic rifles, machine guns, hand grenades and other military hardware have been fed to the Simbas through Juba. In Juba, the arms are hastily unloaded (often the pilots leave the engines running), transferred to the Simbas' waiting truck convoys, and sped across 150 miles of improved road to the main rebel receiving point at Aba, a small town near Faradje just over the Congo border. There, the rebels' 18th Battalion supervises the distribution of the arms to rebel units throughout the northern Congo...
...closer than anyone thinks. If Hurry Sundown is not the first example of computer fiction, it is a triumphant imitation. The characters are as inevitable as those in great myths or TV wrestling matches. Villain Henry Warren is a pallidly ambitious Flem Snopes type who manages a mammoth truck-farming plantation. His wife Julie-Ann is a neurotic Southern aristocrat. They have (what else?) an idiot child. Hero Reeve Scott is a young Negro just returned from the Army, determined to fight for his rights and not let Henry Warren steal his patch of land away from him. Reeve...
...Cars to Trucks. Daimler is driving hard for an even better 1965. It has just begun full production of the new Grand Mercedes 600, a 20-ft.-long limousine that will cost as much as $16,000, and this month it will introduce a bus with "all the comforts of first-class air travel." The company is rushing work on a $75 million plant that will double Daimler's truck capacity. And Daimler-Benz General Director Walter Hitzinger, 56, met recently in Frankfurt with Volkswagen's Heinz Nordhoff to discuss an increase in the "cooperation" that began...
People to People. While Daimler-Benz is best known for its elegant Mercedes, the company's truck and bus sales account for 41% of revenues and seem to have the greatest potential for growth. Daimler produces twelve basic trucks in more than 100 different styles, including a highly successful utility vehicle with a science-fiction name and capabilities: the Unimog. This ungainly, versatile product is one of Daimler's biggest sellers; it can be used to cut roses, bore shafts, or climb 70° slopes, is the transportation for the first motorized west-to-east expedition across...