Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stalking at Night. In the nights that followed, shotgun-toting whites and Negroes stalked each other. White youths in a pickup truck fired into a Negro home; a Negro blasted a carload of whites with a shotgun, hitting one man in both legs; rifle shots from the darkness wounded a Negro riding...
BEAR WITH us. With that, work lights burst into brilliant glare, diesel compressors roar into life, air hammers rip into the pavement, and dust begins to rise. Comes the dawn. Trucks rumble up loaded with thick lengths of timber. Racing against the clock, the workmen literally pave the torn-up street with the square logs-just in time to let the morning torrent of traffic flood through. Can Tokyo possibly finish the building job by October? There have been doubters. Workmen are still scrambling all over the swooping, tent-shaped roof of the vast Olympic swimming pool and the upward...
...York now has its pageant waggons too-set to perform everywhere from ye Bronx to ye Staten Island, and even before ye Bobby Wagner, the mayor. Belonging to Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, they are not quaint old tumbrels. They are a caravan of six trucks, led by a big, behemoth trailer truck that disassembles like a Chinese puzzle. In four hours, they collectively become a fully lighted, handsomely equipped Elizabethan theater. In addition to the free, summerlong Shakespeare that the festival group offers in its stationary theater in Central Park, the new road company is taking...
Meanwhile, a crew of 16 unpacked. Off came the top and sides of the principal truck. Its bed, with six decorative pillars and two staircases permanently mounted upon it, became the main stage. At the push of a button, an apron stage hydraulically unfolded itself into position. Still a third stage level was pulled out and positioned in front of the apron...
MOBIL'S game sends 36 people at once on a mock-up cross-country race to see who is the best driver. The participant soon finds himself swooping around curves, skidding past a train, then whammo! smack into the truck ahead. The scores? Twenty-three is tops, but one fellow, who can't even drive a hard bargain, rated 19.8 just by sitting there too mixed-up to move...