Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emerged with bleeding face and torn clothes. Still other Negro youngsters were thrown to the ground and kicked. "That'll teach you, nigger!" grunted one assailant. "Don't come back tomorrow." For good measure, the rowdies pummeled and kicked four white out-of-town newsmen. A pickup truck equipped with a two-way radio helped the mob head off fleeing children. Grenada policemen stood by and grinned. "These niggers," explained Constable Grady Carroll, "is keeping the law-enforcement officers from doing their duty...
...clime, ice is still a luxury. When the Cav arrived, a local entrepreneur hauled in ice from Pleiku every day, most of it melting before he got there but the remainder providing a cool profit. Then one day he failed to show up, and troopers found his creaky, decrepit truck leaking ice water on Highway 19. The truck and its owner were riddled with Viet Cong bullets, and a note near the body read: "Do not take the dirty money of the Americans." Now an ice plant is being built to ease the heat...
...sweltering day in July 1912, Nurse Sanger threaded her way through pushcarts to a cramped flat in a Grand Street tenement. Sadie Sachs, 28, wife of a truck driver and mother of three, was near death as the result of a self-induced abortion. She pleaded with Nurse Sanger and the doctor: "Another baby will finish me. What can I do to prevent it?" The doctor's gruff reply: "Tell Jake to sleep on the roof." Three months later, Sadie Sachs was dead-of another self-induced abortion. Margaret Sanger had a cause...
...staked out with hysterical hordes awaiting the boys' arrival; their hotels were less under siege. In New York City last week, cops counted only about 500 kids gathered around the hotel v. 10,000 the year before, and the Beatles' trip to Shea Stadium by armored truck seemed dictated more by showmanship than necessity. True, two girls did threaten to jump off a Manhattan hotel roof in the Beatles' honor. But the girls were combing their hair while the crowds gathered, and it was taken as a sign of the times that they chose a 22nd-floor...
...others, John Hancock), Damon has made a name as an innovator. In 1934 he introduced the idea of a bank issuing a letter of credit for individual auto buyers. (He recently recalled: "I said to myself, Good God, if I can do this for International Har vester or Mack Truck, why can't I do it for the guy who's going to buy a Chevrolet?") Only last June Damon came out with Bankcardchek, an imaginative new system combining revolving credit, traveler's checks and a checking account. The first to applaud Damon's promotion...