Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearest liberty is the Marine headquarters town of Danang. "That's like being allowed to leave the state prison to go to the county jail," snorts one leatherneck. In Danang and Phu Bai, the rains have turned the infernal red dust into infernal red mud, in which a truck can sink to its door handles. On the perimeters, the marines and infantrymen live like soldiers on perimeters everywhere-primitively, with pup tents, ponchos and C rations. The airmen at Danang boast big airy tents with screened windows and solid floors, a new PX and mess hall. Most...
...Grand Dragon of Mississippi's Ku Klux Klan, an unemployed truck driver named E. L. McDaniel, lives in Natchez. Another familiar figure there is Charles Evers, militant state field director for the N.A.A.C.P. and brother of murdered Medgar. Surprisingly, though these hostile organizations both have strong followings in the old riverfront town (pop. 12,000 whites, 11,000 Negroes), they managed to coexist-until six weeks ago. Then, when the president of the town's N.A.A.C.P. chapter was cruelly maimed by a booby-trap bomb wired to his automobile accelerator, Natchez Negroes could no longer contain their anger...
Private industry is also stepping up its spending. Volkswagen is laying out $100 million to double its plant capacity, and Ford is investing $30 million to enable its truck and tractor factory to assemble automobiles as well. Alcoa has set up a pilot company as the first step toward establishing a $51 million aluminum works. The most hopeful investment field is in petrochemicals, where the government recently broke the long-held monopoly of state-owned Petrobras to attract more efficient private companies. Some ten corporations, including Jersey Standard, Gulf, and Phillips Petroleum, are now actively studying the investment possibilities. Brazil...
...residents of North Harvard will carry their flight into the streets Tuesday with a float in the Columbus Day Parade. They have entered a float depicting bull-dovers demolishing their homes. It will consist of a truck carrying a banner saying "North Harvard Street" and towing a house with a bulldozer behind it. Stevan F. Goldin '64-4 said yesterday that hope this will dramatize the issue before all of Boston...
Incongruously, we came upon an all night truck stop, mid-way to nowhere. There appeared to be no sign over the door, and I went to get coffee to go. Too late, I discovered that hatred hadn't advertised--perhaps the sign had blown off in a storm. When I ordered the coffee, all the other voices stopped. I turned from cold stares and fixed my gaze on a sign over the counter. "ALL