Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bludgeoned to death. Billy and Wyatt proceed on to Mardi Gras, make a sentimental trip to the whorehouse, and drop acid with their hookers. But this is, as they say, unsatisfying; they leave New Orleans for some unknown destination. In the film's best sequence, a pick-up truck overtakes them on a Louisiana highway, and some lout, hoping merely to scare Billy, shoots him, and then kills Wyatt...
...Billy intends to buy a home in Florida with his share of the loot. This is what Hopper insists on in his interviews: that when Wyatt says to Billy "We blew it" what they're really saying is that they're no different from the two guys in the truck. That's true, but that's not what the film says at all. The good guys are portrayed as sensitive loner types: they know grass isn't addictive: they're nice to girls: they wouldn't hurt anybody. The bad guys are resentful barbarians, who pick on the good guys...
Novelist Jacqueline Susann deftly turned the other cheek on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, disappointing the sleepless millions who awaited her delayed reply to Truman Capote's allegation that she looked, among other things, "like a truck driver in drag." As the author of The Love Machine went through her chat with Carson, the subject never came up. Just as she was to leave, her host asked innocently: "What do you think of Truman?" "Truman . . . Truman," she considered gravely. "I think history will prove he was one of the best Presidents...
...decided to fight the out-migration by bringing industry to Forest City. Today Winnebago Industries, the company a town created, has become the largest manufacturer of recreational vehicles in the U.S. Last month Winnebago, which is named for the surrounding county, placed a $30 million order with the Dodge Truck Division for chassis and engines to build $120 million worth of motor homes -self-propelled dwellings that combine the mobility of a car with some of the comforts of home. Such vehicles have grown increasingly popular among affluent U.S. families as a convenient means to travel; go camping, take weekend...
...last week, Israeli jets struck with sudden and lethal fury. Following a series of guerrilla attacks launched from Jordan, including the mining of a military bus, Mirage and Skyhawk bombers breached the $85 million East Ghor irrigation canal, leaving the melon, banana and vegetable fields of thousands of Jordanian truck farmers without water. Next day the jets strafed and napalmed guerrilla hideouts 2,500 ft. up on forested Mount Hermon in southern Lebanon, the jump-off point for 21 attacks against Israeli farms and outposts in the past month. A third retaliatory raid silenced Jordanian heavy artillery near the Dead...