Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horns, fog lights, etc. But nothing seems to work. Early one morning last week, the lethal soup swirled in. Warning signs flashed futilely. Samuel Baker, of Phillipsburg, N.J., slowed his Volkswagen-and sailed 100 ft. into some weeds when struck from behind by a tractor-trailer truck. Eleven other trucks and two cars crumpled together. One truck passenger and five truck drivers-one of them 14 vehicles back-were killed. Baker suffered a minor neck injury. >Construction Worker Samuel Brown was eager to get away from northern Arizona's Glen Canyon Dam-and with good reason...
...military units to take on civic action projects in underdeveloped nations. The theory is that guerrillas can operate successfully only when the civilians are in sympathy with them. To win loyalty from native populations and make guerrilla warfare less likely, Air Commandos and Special Forces help truck drinking water into slum areas of Guayaquil, Ecuador, fly medical teams into rural Bolivia, build roads and schools in the Dominican Republic. Most such projects are in Latin America...
...mountain "to grow up." Parents who prefer their kids to learn about life in a setting other than the widescreen Wyoming hills would do well to follow the lead of Mother Maureen O'Hara who says: "Come along, children. We'll wait for Daddy back in the truck...
...executioner, Adolf Eichmann was a flop. He got queasy at the sight of corpses, and when a fellow Nazi invited him to peep at some Jews being gassed in a truck, he ran away in terror. "If today I am shown a gaping wound," he declared, "I can't possibly look at it. I am that type of person...
...conspirators to influence members of a jury. The alleged jury tampering occurred while Hoffa was on trial in a federal court in Nashville last year. The charge against him then was that he and a Teamster crony had received $1,008,057 in illegal payments from a trucking company, through a truck-leasing firm nominally owned by their wives. Judge William E. Miller declared a mistrial when the jury failed to reach a verdict (TIME, Jan. 4). Afterward, Miller said there had been evidence of "illegal and improper attempts" to influence jurors, and he ordered a special grand jury investigation...