Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rained red, white and blue confetti. Amid the ubiquitous (if unflattering to Nixon) portraits of the two Presidents, signs in Arabic and English blossomed and bobbed: WE TRUST NIXON. GOD BLESS NIXON. KEEP IT UP, NIXON. Clapping and dancing, a crew of workers on an open truck lifted branches in homage and chanted: "Nixon, Nixon, yehya [long live] Nixon...
...newspaper business; of an apparent heart attack; in Oklahoma City. In 1902 Gaylord bought a piece of the Daily Oklahoman and set up the Oklahoma Publishing Co.-today a conglomerate holding two newspapers, a magazine, eight radio and TV stations, and Oklahoma's largest truck-big express service. A staunch conservative and Prohibitionist, Gaylord practiced daily calisthenics, made business trips well into his 90s, and put in a full day at the office the day of his death...
...with lighted crosses on their tractor cabs, they belong to Transport for Christ, a nomadic nondenominational mission to the truckers of North America. The mobile chapels can usually be found parked smack amidst a clutter of oil drums, automobiles and other semitrailer rigs at spots like the Mid-Continent Truck Stop in Mesquite, Texas, or the Mass. 10 Truck Stop outside Boston...
Thousands of truckers each year drop in for services that begin with a safety lecture, often featuring state highway patrol movies of bloody and fatal accidents. The films serve a dual purpose: a caution against careless driving and a reminder of impending eternity. At a truck terminal in Dallas, Chaplain Mahlon Martin followed a film by giving the assembled drivers a typical Transport for Christ pitch: "People who say that one of these days they'll get it straightened out with the Lord might find that tomorrow is too late." Besides regular services, the two-man chapel crews also...
...then he had started his ministry in a small way by distributing Gospel literature at truck stops. At first the truckers did not want to listen to him. "Satan just didn't want us in the industry," Keys says. Driving late one night near Toronto, his religious feelings grew so strong, Keys recalls, that he "got out of the van, walked down the white line and claimed the highways of North America for Christ." Finally, in 1968 he acquired his first mobile chapel...