Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today a group of truck drivers block a few highways to demonstrate their financial woes. They win governmental concessions-and maybe the highway reopens...
...people who have one car will want two," says GM's Gerstenberg. A small, unostentatious car will be the workhorse for commuting and shopping. The second vehicle could be any of a number of special-purpose types, depending on family habits and interests: a camper for vacations, a pickup truck for light hauling, a sports car for pleasure driving?perhaps even a large sedan for limited use. Some families may own a small car and rent a large one whenever they have to travel somewhere together. Joseph M. Pepek, a dentist in Westfield, Mass., may represent the two-car future...
...that Prime Minister Edward Heath said would give the nation "a harder Christmas than we have known since the war" (see THE WORLD). In the U.S., airlines drafted plans to drop a fifth of their flights next month, and a series of protests against the fuel cutbacks-by pilots, truck drivers, gas-station owners -gave a tinge of anarchy to the week's events. All the while, the Arabs deepened the chill by announcing further oil-output reductions...
Moments later, the carabinieri arrived. "I am Paul Getty," he told them. "May I have a cigarette, please?" The police immediately noticed what the truck driver had not: the youth's right ear was missing...
...Truck Driver Antonio Tedesco was heading toward Salerno on the Italian autostrada shortly before dawn. Suddenly in the driving rain he saw a lone figure wildly waving his arms by the side of the road. Tedesco pulled to a stop, and the young man, weeping and drenched to the skin, told him: "I am a kidnaping captive. I need to get to a telephone to call my mother in Rome...