Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive of some performance of the Bard. It may be spoken in Elizabethan English or Spanish with a New York accent, played by a professional repertory group or a traveling troupe, mounted in an authentic replica of the 16th century Globe Theatre or on a mobile stage truck...
...Bronx boy, Screvane is of Italian and Irish parentage, went to Mississippi State University on an athletic scholarship. He is still a physical culturist, enjoys performing deep knee-bends while standing on one foot. He left school after one year, became a city garbage-truck driver at $30 a week. He worked his way up to the $25,000-a-year job of sanitation commissioner. It was from that post that Bob Wagner, in 1961, appointed him deputy mayor, then picked him as a running mate. In New York, the city council president is something like a vice president. What...
...band of about 60 guerrillas wearing Cuban-style, olive green uniforms and armed with submachine guns, invaded two big cattle estates, burning houses and barns, destroying a butter-and-cheese plant and cutting telephone wires. Then, six of the guer rillas rode to a mine, hijacked a mining company truck carrying 20 cases of dynamite, and blew up two bridges near the village of Concepcion. Other guerrillas attacked at least two other haciendas and surprised two small police outposts, captured four police and seized arms and ammunition...
Often he bribed Congolese soldiers with Polaroid snapshots-a practice that enabled him to be in the right place to take the last picture of Patrice Lumumba as he was bundled from a plane to the truck that would carry him to his execution. From the Congo, Faas went to Algeria, where he snapped a number of O.A.S. murders daily and risked inviting his own. When a picture he took of one O.A.S. murder made the papers, a man stopped him in the street, invited him into a cafe for an absinthe, then pulled a pistol...
...aircraft -many of them ancient T-28 trainers converted to fighter-bombers. Today the air force has 12,500 men and 350 planes. The T-28s have been phased out and replaced by the A-1H Skyraider attack bomber, a brute of a plane that pilots fondly call "a truck-but what a truck!" The air force's primary mission is to fly close support for the army, and, operating in close cooperation with U.S. pilots, it has developed into Asia's second best air force (only Nationalist China's is better equipped and better trained) under...