Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with their fancier weapons, the Viet Cong still have plenty of old-style arms that can kill someone just as dead as the new ones. Several of their heavy machine guns predate World War II, and most of them have steel-rimmed wooden wheels. Since the Viet Cong are truck-poor, their Chinese 75-mm. recoilless rifle, which was designed for vehicle mounting, comes simply on two wheels so that it can be dragged overland manually. Then there are the even more rustic land mines, booby traps and Rube Goldberg-style gadgetry that the Viet Cong sometimes seem to prefer...
Sometimes, it's more exciting. Like the night two drunk whores careened in. Blitman was studying for an exam. They started to make comments about his long hair. Then they moved on to the truck drivers and gas station attendants. "Bet he likes the boys instead," one would say. Then the other, "Bet he's got no balls." Finally, one guy jumps up and yells, "Okay, I'll make you feel it. Let's go." They left...
...nosed Irish-American named Emmett Grogan, 23, The Diggers beg leftovers and handouts from nearby restaurants, butcher shops and groceries, rumble around in a rainbow-painted truck dispensing stew and sympathy. "The whole idea is love," explains Digger Leonard Sussman, 23, who recently quit an insurance job in New Jersey to join the love-Haight mission. "We have a farm in Mendocino given to us by a friend where we'll grow food," he explains, "and other Diggers will go to Chile or Mexico to grow marijuana in the backyard...
Every time a U.S. plane strafes a truck convoy or bombs out a bridge, the cost of Hanoi's involvement in South Viet Nam goes up another notch. Still, the U.S. has shown remarkable restraint by sparing a long list of choice and vital targets. The roster of restricted areas includes the docks of Haiphong harbor, the MIG jet fighter bases that ring Hanoi and the 25-mile zone bordering Red China, which is increasingly used as a sanctuary for truck convoys bringing supplies from China. Last week the U.S. decided to raise the North's costs considerably...
...Chief Executive Ling, 44, the Wilson deal was the zenith of a sensational rise that began in an electrical shop in 1946. With $3,000 in capital and a battered pickup truck, Ling contracted to lay wires in buildings springing up in prosperous Dallas. He learned finance, went public, issuing 800,000 shares in his little company-keeping half for himself-at $2.25. Next came his first acquisition: an electronic-vibration-equipment maker, for which he paid $19,000 cash and assumed the company's debts of $66,000. After a series of small takeovers, Ling was ready...