Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times. The very words have a lilt, not unlike clanging ashcans tossed from a refuse truck. What a treasure chest: James Reston, intrepid reporter and pulse counter to the Nation; Craig Claiborne, gourmet par excellence; Orville Prescott on books, Bosley Crowther on movies, Ross Parmenter on music; Seymour Topping reporting from Moscow, Drew Middleton from London, Roy Silver from Rockville Center, David Halberstam from wherever there was trouble, and Farnsworth Fowle, ace of the city-side crew...
Getting a driver's license in Britain is an L of a job. Tyro motorists are forced by law to hang a learner's "L" on their car, are thus the object of gibes and sneers from every hot-rodder and truck driver on the road. None of this fazed Margaret Hunter, a spinster schoolteacher from Cheshire who at 65 finally decided that it was time for her to get her license...
...starts so terrified her instructor that he got out of the car, remarking: "This is lunacy; it's suicide. I'm not going another inch with you. I've had enough." Undeterred, plucky Miss Hunter had another go two days later, sideswiped a five-ton truck and demolished her car. "The garage told me it's a write-off," she said sweetly...
...ones. The Hartford pool, designed by Chicago's Booz, Allen & Hamilton, will start in July, handling overnight all the deposit, savings and installment loan accounting for the nine banks. Each bank will simply have its entries typed up in special magnetic ink. At the close of day a truck will pick up the records and whisk them to the computer center, where an automatic reader will riffle through them and beep the data to a National Cash Register 315 computer. The computer system will do all the rest, from posting individual deposits and withdrawals to printing up customer statements...
...distance haulers; 20-ton giants and 42-wheel monsters are already at work. Yet, paradoxically, the days of the continent-spanning truckers may be running out because railroads are fighting back so successfully with their long-distance piggyback service, which last year took 500,000 highway trips away from trucks. The piggyback threat worries truck builders, but they see a bright side of it: there will always have to be truck tractors to deliver the trailers before and after their piggyback...