Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years old, and his younger brother, and this guy who used to think he was either Captain Scarlet or Matt Busby from the Beatles' White Album but never quite made up his mind which (though it took him only a week to decide he hated Harvard Medical School) and Truck. In between halves, Truck tells me about an article in the Reader's Digest. When I acknowledge that I've missed the article, Truck allows that that's always a problem with the Reader's Digest. There's so much in it, he explains, and so little time to read...
Walter Payton, Jackson State, 6 ft., 208 lbs. A dependable high-speed truck whose stats show a long series of 100-yd. days. Payton averaged a potent 6.1 yds. per carry at Jackson State...
...President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, 48, promised to give the French a relaxed political style when he was elected last May. Now the French are wondering what he meant. Recently, the satirical weekly Canard Enchaine reported that the President's Citroen had collided with a milk truck at 5 a.m. in Paris. Last week it claimed that he is a security risk, too often out of touch with his Elysee Palace office and the red button that controls the force de frappe. ∎ Then for the first time, the nation's respected liberal daily Le Monde published...
Detroit is supersensitive to auto layoffs; a Wayne State University study shows that for every pink-slipped auto worker, another 1.5 employees in local supply industries would eventually lose their jobs. The same study reports that for every $1 fluctuation in national car and truck sales, Detroit residents gain -or lose-300. The head of a company that deals with all the major Detroit-area manufacturers says that even the biggest ones are holding off payment for services. Says he: "I've never had to wait so long for my money-ever...
...raid, a Moroccan Jew who had immigrated to Israel a decade ago. At the graveside ceremony, Israel's chief rabbi, Shlomo Goren, declared with suppressed emotion that the desecration of bodies, even those of Israel's enemies, was prohibited by religious laws. Some clearly agree with Truck Driver Zada David Cohen, who said sadly, "Now everybody will think Israel is barbarian...