Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard heavyweights, in the surprisingly uncomfortable position of being on page 4/Dump Truck top, are quiet these days. They know that everyone will be out to beat the crew that beat every other collegiate crew worth beating last year. And although the oarsmen are confident that they can do it again, they exude a different sort of confidence--calm and professional...
...last week opened their classified pages to the unemployed free of charge. The response from the unemployed was startling. "We were expecting 400, maybe 500 ads at most," says Classified Manager Thomas P. Grant Jr. In the first week, 1,095 jobless people-secretaries and executives, graphic artists and truck drivers, bartenders, librarians and engineers-sent in their pleas for work...
...hard-to-park ton of steel along with you." In case of inclement weather or too many parcels or small children, mass transit would always be available. By geological accident, moreover, the Grenoble valley is almost flat, and thus is ideal for bicycling. The only drawback: auto and truck traffic has made bicycling too dangerous...
...first political kidnaping in West German history was carried out with almost military precision. Lorenz's black Mercedes was cut off by a truck and rammed in the rear by a red Fiat. When Lorenz's chauffeur got out to discuss the accident with the Fiat's woman driver, he was knocked to the street by a bearded man from still another car. The men then jumped into the Mercedes and drove the protesting Lorenz away...
Later we camp out on a ridge near a truck stop, where the drivers doze in their cabs. the wind forces us to lie flat, but there is a good view of headlights passing far below, and the March sky is crammed with stars. No one bothers...