Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After getting a favorable resporise, he published the first issue of Overdrive in September 1961. Twenty-five hundred copies were mailed out free to truck stops around the country; the owners were told to sell them for a dime, keep the proceeds, and reorder. By December of that year Parkhurst ran an edition...
Overdrive got considerable criticism during the shutdowns and since from truckers who accused them of using the strike to boost their own sales. Parkhurst emphatically denies this, and claims in fact that over a hundred truck stops returned their newstand copies of the magazine in protest against its policies...
Albert Hofstede, 33, wanted to go to medical school, but his application was late, and so he had to take a civil service job with the state of Minnesota to make ends meet. The son of a Dutch-born truck driver, Hofstede decided to stay in government, became a Minneapolis alderman at 26. Last year he was elected mayor of Minneapolis in a startling upset over the law-and-order incumbent, Police Detective Charles Stenvig. Since taking office, he has begun an ambitious multimillion-dollar urban-renovation plan, reorganized equipment to provide better mass-transit service and placed considerable emphasis...
Driving down Main Street, one was forced to wonder just how many times the second officer had to fend off errant hands from passing windows. "Hey cutie," screamed one particularly obnoxious truck driver stopped in the traffic. But the patrolwoman must have been used to this sort of treatment, because as the truck driver went past she neatly sidestepped his searching hand. The other patrolman laughed and, as the patrolwoman turned her back, he flashed an okay sign to the truckdriver...
...Jack Ford, 22, the spitting image of his dad Jerry, who spent a summer as a Yellowstone ranger in 1936. Jack, a senior at Utah State University majoring in forestry, looks forward to his summer, particularly since the Vice President is so enthusiastic. "I rode shotgun for a garbage truck. I had a great time holding a gun on the bears as they feasted on garbage," recalls Jerry. "And I never fired a shot...