Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pickup truck traveling on an Alabama highway at high speed went round a curve, spun out of control, and turned over into a ditch. The driver, Kenneth R. Barton, lay helpless, bleeding from an artery. State Trooper Kenyon M. Lassiter happened by in his patrol car and quickly applied a tourniquet. He eventually got Barton safely to a hospital, and was credited with saving his life...
...long ago, Trooper Lassiter stood by the side of a car he had stopped and was writing the driver a ticket when a pickup truck swerved across the road, struck the car Lassiter had stopped, and killed the trooper as he tried to duck behind his patrol car. The pickup truck bounced off the patrol car and kept on going. The next day the truck's driver turned himself in to the Covington County sheriff. He admitted he had been out the night before visiting several bars, but was unable to remember going home or who drove the truck...
...efforts paid off in his first encounter: discouraging the sale of land to builders of a planned drive-in theater. Polizzi sent the Democratic ward committeeman into the streets with a sound truck announcing an emergency meeting in the Big Club Hall. After a session exploring the blight that the drive-in would inflict on the area, a small army of Italian dowagers volunteered to lie down in front of the bulldozers. The sellers backed down, and the Hill's alderman quickly slipped a regulation through the zoning board forbidding a building permit for any drive-in within...
Monday's Dump Truck on the 1969 strike was, I thought, excellently written and, more important, a well-timed reminder. The '69 strike certainly should not be for gotten. But why insist on the contrast between the activism of the late sixties and the apathy and self-centeredness of the present, as in the article "Freshmen Know Little About Strike" in the same issue of The Crimson? Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times do enough of that, with their constant harping on streaking, pre-meds and apathy. True, these things exist, but the picture is not that simple...
Trials of some political prisoners are under way. More than fifty Miristas (members of the now outlawed leftist revolutionary movement) in Temuco were recently sentenced to terms ranging from 61 days to 20 years for such acts as land seizures and truck hijackings during the Allende years. Trials of the Dawson Island prisoners are expected to begin later this month...