Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadian murder conviction in 1959 by matching the accused's hair with tiny hair samples found on the victim. The first such U.S. conviction occurred last winter in a New York federal court, which accepted N.A.A. evidence as proof that the soil found on a truck hauling illicit liquor matched the soil around a moonshiner's still in Georgia...
...Goldwater have a seven-car accident with a gasoline truck that's been hit by a match wagon over the Grand Canyon. If he should survive, let the ambulance that's taking him to the hospital have four flat tires and run into a brick wall that's holding nuclear warheads and TNT. And if he should survive that, let him be thrown into a patch of wild dogs that's suffering from flea-itis and may he scratch himself insane. When he gets to the hospital, let the doctor be a junkie with a gorilla...
...took only three minutes. At 10:30 a.m., a tiny grey Citroën delivery truck double-parked in front of Clerc's jewelry shop, on the Place du Casino across from Monte Carlo's tourist-draped Hôtel de París. Three men in smocks, mountaineer hoods and submachine guns jumped out; one took station at the door. Inside the store, the smaller hood yanked the telephone wire and smacked an employee while the larger hood snapped a burst of bullets through the window of a display case...
Found. Light towers rose like periscopes out of the next truck, to be fed by generators in another truck. At either flank of the main stage, trucks pulled up and opened for business as dressing rooms. Still another truck spewed out neatly packed flats, stairs, props, scenery and more lights. The last truck contained enough collapsible bleachers and folding chairs for something over 1,500 people...
...Broadway set designers and one Broadway lighting designer were recently given a $75,800 Ford Foundation grant to develop a mobile theater similar to Papp's on an even more compact scale-that is, on one truck only. The foundation is trying to help the State Department find a way to present American theater from town to town anywhere in the world. Arena stage, dressing rooms, props, generators, lights -everything but the emotion-would roll in one unit...