Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frost. Attla's run-at an average of close to 20 m.p.h.-clipped six minutes off the course record. His reward: two trophies and a purse of $1,650. The next day, with Ely recovering from apres-sled festivities, Attla and his Huskies were in his ¾ton truck, rolling down State Route 169 toward Colorado and another race...
...sound truck has forced its way onto the third baseline. The march must disassemble and regroup behind it, the black schoolchildren near the very front. Other contingents, vying for the lead positions, have cut the F.H. contingent's banner from the group's main body. "If you're missing your organization," instructs their sound truck, "just get in someplace." Later the sound truck announces that the march will leave when state senator-elect William Owens, one of its sponsors, arrives. "Let's go. We don't need him..."urges the crowd. In response, "We shall overcome..." gasps from the speakers...
Oblivious to the sound truck's directive, "Stay calm. Stay quiet..." a disjointed mass of bodies thrashes into the intersection of Mass Ave and Boylston Street. A barrage of over a hundred armed, billy-clubbed, helmeted riot police blocks their path. At their center are seven mounted police. Behind them a fleet of squad cars and paddy wagons jams Boylston Street...
...tossing rocks and cardboard tubes. Behind the closed ranks of the police, a black man is pummeled. A white woman in a beaver coat lunges next to him. She is clubbed on the back and falls face down in the gutter. Owens climbs onto the roof of the sound truck at the front of the column. He asks for attention. The crowd won't listen. His brown color-coordinated coat, pants and tie have the look of Esquire's fashion page. His moustache is definitely in Vogue...
...October Movement has control of the sound truck "Down Commonwealth Avenue...Don't stop at the intersection..." The police relax their lines. The march swings left, chanting "The people United. Will never be defeated..." The brown jackets fall to the rear. They are the African Unity League and their leader, Imamu Barak is the only one among them who will acknowledge any questions, All Baraks will reply is, "Just write the story...