Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countdown to Canada's Expo 67, it was 878 days since the morning in 1964 when the first dump truck dropped the first load of fill into the St. Lawrence River off Montreal. All that seemed a long time ago as a 19-year-old Canadian Army cadet last week sprinted into the Place des Nations amphitheater and, before 5,250 invited dignitaries, handed a blazing torch to Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Grinning, Pearson tipped the flame toward a gas jet in a canister, and a fire flickered up-to burn night and day during the six-month life...
Every weary truck driver knows the highway stops where he can pay $15 for a bag of stimulating amphetamine tablets-he calls them "bennies" or "copilots." Equally knowledgeable is Harold Leap, agent of the year-old U.S. Bureau of Drug Abuse Control and head of its St. Louis office. Disguised as truck drivers, Leap's D-men have bought illegal bennies time and again, but not just to nab roadside peddlers. They aim to buy supplies of bennies wholesale, and thus trace the black-market drugs back to their source...
George S. Waldo, a first-year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was killed by a truck Tuesday night in Union Square, Somerville...
Somerville police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the 22-year-old student's death. The police report that Waldo was missed by a first truck, bounced off a second, and was crushed under the rear wheel of a third...
...young architect in I.M.Pei's firm has since November been working full time dreaming up design ideas for the neighborhood (one far-out possibility: enclosing a mile of elevated line inside a high-rise commercial complex, burying the heavily traveled truck route that runs under it, and turning the ground level into a pedestrian mall...