Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...runaway hit of the show was easily Segal's creation, The Truck. It consisted of the actual cab of a red panel truck that Segal had found in a junkyard. Inside, the odometer read 85,723, the generator and oil-pressure gauges glowed red in the dashboard. In the driver's seat was an alert, life-size white plaster driver, both hands on the wheel, right foot hovering over the accelerator. As viewers looked over his shoulders at the windshield, they shared a Cineramic ride through city streets, as lights, cars and bright neon signs whizzed...
...bring off the joy ride, Segal had rigged a small film projector and mirror arrangement to the right of the cab, which beamed the movie onto the truck's frosted windshield. Watching it, one housewife confided: "That's the way my husband drives." Chuckled a young executive: "I go through that every night." Juror Martin Friedman, director of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, put it another way: "I found it very moving. Actually," he said, "by treating the man almost as a ghost, as a calcified figure, Segal presents you with reality, then questions the existence of reality...
...France confiscates automobiles that repeat noise violations. The rubber, plastic-or leather-guarded garbage can is commonplace in London, Paris and Berlin-an improvement that could hush Manhattan's most characteristic and deafening early-morning sound. Bermuda has instituted the quiet motorbike. Outboard motors are losing their bark; truck mufflers that kill the roar are available...
...mall, Austin Patrolman Billy Speed, 23, one of the first policemen on the scene, took cover behind the heavy, columnar stone railing, but a bullet zinged between the columns and killed him. Still farther south, 500 yds. from the tower, Electrical Repairman Roy Dell Schmidt, 29, walked toward his truck after making a call, was killed by a bullet in the stomach. To the east, Iran-bound Peace Corps Trainee Thomas Ashton, 22, was strolling on the roof of the Computation Center when Whitman shot him dead...
...there and put the line out of commission." Last week, busy as ever, Kasler picked out some suspicious tracks leading into an out-of-the-way forested area near North Viet Nam's Mu Gia Pass. "I dropped down to 500 ft., and sure enough, there was a truck. My first burst of 20 mike-mike [Air Forcese for another helpful weapon, his 20-mm. cannon] hit it. It looked like a small Hanoi going off-there was a 2,500-ft. fireball." Joining the attack, Kasler's buddies set off nine other explosions and 18 fires-demolishing...