Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Hornet arrived at Pearl Harbor, the van was hauled by helicopter to nearby Hickam Air Force Base, flown by an Air Force C-141 transport to Houston, then trundled on the flatbed of a diesel truck to the Space Center. There the astronauts were transferred to the $15 million Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) that was built especially for men returning from the moon. Its provisions for recreation include a lounge for cards, a game room with pool table and exercising equipment, and a film library (Goodbye, Columbus, Romeo and Juliet). But until their quarantine ends, the astronauts...
Novelist Jacqueline (The Love Machine) Susann was propped up in bed in her Manhattan apartment sleepily watching Johnny Carson chat with Author Truman (In Cold Blood) Capote on the Tonight Show. Suddenly she realized that they were talking about her. "A truck driver in drag," Capote was saying. "A born transvestite" who wears "marvelous wigs and sleazy dresses," he continued, "would have been so great" as Myra Breckinridge. Before the angry authoress was out of bed next morning, she had lawyers on the phone discussing damage suits against Capote and NBC. As for why Capote chose to attack...
...opens in the brush of Northeast Brazil, where Miguel, a hired cattle herder, and his wife and children live. The owner of the herd has decided to move his cattle sough, and Miguel is now out of a job. Hearing of work in Recife, he buys passage on a truck for himself and his family, but fails to find employ there. A labor recruiter in Recife convinces him to make the long trip to Sao Paolo, again by truck. There he is hired as a construction worker on the Sao Paolo Hilton, and the films ends...
...remainder of their quarantine time with them. During the next 67 hours, the sealed van with its five occupants will travel aboard the carrier to Ford Island, Hawaii, where it will be unloaded, flown in a C-141 to Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, and transported by truck to the Manned Spacecraft Center...
...authentic force resides not in its professional but its amateur performances. Filming throughout the Southwest, first-time Director Hopper let the townspeople "rap" as they pleased, then caught them on camera. The result is a harrowing gallery of American primitives, from mindless high-school girls to the redneck truck drivers who case the cyclists' long hair and ad-lib: "Looks like refugees from some gorilla love-in . . . We ought to mate 'em up with . . . black wenches. That...