Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next serious outburst erupted in Chicago. It, too, started with an incident that might have passed unnoticed in a less volatile time. Answering what turned out to be a false alarm in Garfield Park, a Negro neighborhood about five miles west of the Loop, a speeding hook-and-ladder truck knocked down a sign pole, killing Dessie Mae Williams, 23, a Negro. It was a bad setting for such an accident. Only a month earlier, a militant civil rights group called ACT had led 60 marchers to the West Garfield firehouse to demand that the all-white company hire Negroes...
...against Doreen Collins, 39, a divorcee seeking $400,000 in compensatory damages for a grisly ac cident in 1962 when she was driving her fiance's 1960 Corvair on a narrow two-lane highway near El Nido. The car swerved out of control and hit a 16-ton truck head on, killing her fiance and one of her five children. For Plaintiff Collins, Lawyer David Harney called 46 expert witnesses to back the Collins claim that the 1960 Corvair was "inherently defective." Judge John D. Foley instructed the jury: "The manufacturer of an article who places...
...Cuban exile, I know how deeply the Bay of Pigs episode touched the lives of the exiled. We all had a brother in the invasion, a cousin, friends, fathers or fiances. Some of my friends were killed in combat on the marshes, others died by suffocation inside a sealed truck in which hundreds were packed for an eight-hour trip to Havana. Others had a more cruel death as they drifted in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks. Some were fortunate enough to be sent to prison for 1½ years and, after suffering the most inhuman psychological tortures...
...plaintiff is Doreen Collins, a pleasant-faced divorcee who seeks $400,000 in compensatory damages for a grisly accident in 1962 when she was driving her five children and her new fiance on a camping trip in a 1960 Corvair. Suddenly swinging out of control, the car hit a truck headon, killing one child and the fiance. U.S. Racing Driver Paul O'Shea has taken the stand to back the Collins claim that the Corvair was unsafe. British Racing Driver Stirling Moss has testified that it was safe. The war of experts may well leave judge and jury unsure...
Deputy Saia asked people in the street several times to clear a path for the truck, but there was no response. Finally he gave the order to remove obstructors forcibly, and the four were arrested when they tried to block the truck...