Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent maneuverings over gold, the U.S. Treasury's performance has resembled that of a man who leaps out of the way of an oncoming car only to be hit by a truck coming from the other direction. After the British pound was devalued, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler warned that the dollar was next in line for speculative attack. That warning was actually aimed at Congressman Wilbur Mills in an attempt to gain support for the domestic surtax proposal, but its chief result was to further fan speculation and cause a heavy loss of U.S. gold. Last month...
Meanwhile, there were strange sights around the Square. A student leaving Eliot House yesterday saw a Coca-Cola truck unloading bottles of freezing Cokes. As the liquid froze, it expanded, and bottlecaps went ricocheting against the walls of Eliot House...
...Clyde- with Allen as "Warren Beauty" and Liza Minnelli as "Faye O'Laye." Best boff: after Bonnie recites her ode to the Barrow Gang exploits, Clyde's brother Buck says, "I'm only a dumb hillbilly, ma'am, and I don't hold much truck with poetry, but you know what you've done?" Bonnie: "What's that, Buck Barrow?" Buck: "You've managed to combine the intellectual disillusionment of Eliot with the ambiguous symbolism of Baudelaire and still come up with a poem that stinks...
...Navy and Marines pounding away day after day last week at vital transportation points throughout North Viet Nam. There was no lack of targets: under a month of cloud cover, the North had repaired much of the damage from previous raids; freight cars were everywhere on the move, truck traffic had tripled...
...doubled, and the general keeps track of them all with a Mc-Namaran touch for thoroughness and detail that constantly awes his subordinates in Saigon. They insist that Momyer knows where every allied unit and road-friendly or enemy-is in South Viet Nam and where every bridge and truck park is in North Viet Nam. His pilots credit him with uncanny in sight into the best flight pattern to avoid flak on their missions north, an insight gained in part through his own participation in at least one of each of the 30 types of missions, from reconnaissance...