Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the Latin is gone from the Mass. Students at a once WASP-ish university now stuff themselves with pizza from a truck in Freedom Square. But East Cambridge residents can still count on one constant in their lives--the sidewalks beneath their feet...
...Fuji Iron & Steel - are in the process of merging into a colossus that will produce some 22.3 million tons of steel a year and rank second in the world only to U.S. Steel (30.9 million tons). The automaking di vision of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is being combined with the truck-making Isuzu Motors to form Japan's third largest automaker, after Toyota Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. Other mergers are afoot in petrochemicals, electric equipment, heavy machinery, banking and shipbuilding...
...divorced her truck-driver husband over a dozen years ago and gets no alimony. She earns just under $200 a month as a hospital maid; her $39-a-month, two-room apartment is tidy and her children are neatly dressed. "It's no crime," she says, "to be clean...
...rusty 8-by-23-ft. trailer on the swampy shore of Lake Winnecook, just off Interstate 95 near Unity, Me. During the summer he runs a lakeside parking lot for tourists; during the fall he digs potatoes for $1.40 an hour; between times he drives a chicken truck when he can. In 1967 he earned about $3,000, but after breaking a leg while ditchdigging last fall he missed much of the lucrative potato-digging season. He did not receive workmen's compensation...
...recipient was Truck Driver Clovis Roblain, 66, forced to retire last July by progressive heart failure and a crippling heart attack. Chief surgeon was Dr. Christian Cabrol, 42, on the faculty of the University of Paris since age 26, and a specialist in artificial-heart research. An hour after the operation, Roblain's blood pressure dived to near zero. Emergency measures restored it to near normal, but Roblain remained in a coma until his death 51 hours after the operation. The autopsy showed that many formerly immobile blood clots, set free by the unwontedly strong pumping action...