Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Owen wasted no time introducing a bit of ice-cold evidence. His first witness was Henry Rask. 39, an FBI special agent from Atlanta. Rask said that during three days in November he had quizzed one of the accused, Horace Doyle Barnette, 25, a meat-truck driver who now lives in Cullen, La. "Did you obtain from him a signed confession?" Owen asked. Snapped Rask...
Next come the marchers, swinging along with mob gaiety and waving their xenophobic standards at the white faces in the embassy window. Then up roars the jeerleader-often a government in formation ministry man in a sound truck. The next arrival is apt to be a riot truck, probably provided-though for different purposes-by U.S. AID funds, its sides marked with the agency's symbol of clasped hands. Out come the carefully collected stores of cobble stones, brick halves and rocks. And then the fun begins: curses and shattered glass, bonfires and blazing auto mobiles, looted snack bars...
...Before they fled, the Simbas took revenge on four priests who had tried to protect the nuns and incurred further rebel wrath by continuing to celebrate Mass and singing hymns-more bad dawa as far as the Simbas were concerned. When the priests tried to escape from a rebel truck, three were killed on the spot. The fourth survived by playing dead, but was driven mad by the experience. Carried into Leopoldville last week in a planeload of survivors, he kept muttering: "I must go back to join the cadavers...
Although mobile homes are built to travel, it takes a truck to haul them (unlike smaller travel trailers, which can be towed by an ordinary auto). Their owners tend to set them on foundations, skirt them with shrubbery and even porches. Manufacturers claim that, rather than mobility, they are selling a prefabricated, delivered-to-the-site house that is easy to relocate. "We are the answer to low-cost housing," says M.H.M.A. Managing Director Edward Wilson. "The home-builders can't do much about it. They're tied. We have moved into a vacuum." The makers of mobile...
...worry, in the winter it'll be cold," quips Boris, a lumpish, curly-topped blaster on the construction crew. With everyone's dream swaddled in Red tape, and keys to the new flats hard to come by, Boris waltzes around a statuesque museum guide. Sergei, the truck driver, serenades the blue-eyed operator of a giant crane. And one hip-swinging blonde (the Betty Grable part) works her wiles on the doughy bureaucrat she has married to improve her standard of living. "There's nothing I wouldn't do for you," she teases...