Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week-long happening that attracted their attention was a mobile health fair, an educational road show that is expected to visit six communities before the end of summer. Sponsored by the United Presbyterian Church, the fair was first conceived in 1966, when a truck loaded with displays and carrying a volunteer staff including physicians traveled to isolated communities throughout Appalachia. Since then the program has been steadily expanded. This summer, five mobile health fairs are touring rural areas in New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, Idaho, upstate New York, Oklahoma and Arkansas, as well as Appalachia. Stopping in communities for a week...
...only last year that Tom McGuane gave up for good on being a cowboy. A COWBOY'S WORK IS NEVER DONE is still neatly printed on the dashboard of his old pickup truck. That is his Montana persona. In the winter he lives in Key West and thinks of becoming a fishing guide if he goes broke...
Every summer since 1965, when he helped found it, Taylor has made sure that the truck-borne bandstands of Jazzmobile have brought performers like Duke Ellington, Carmen McRae, Dizzy Gillespie and Taylor himself to the ghettos of New York and fifteen other U.S. cities. As Jazzmoblie's fundraising, talent-coordinating president, Taylor also gives two lecture-concerts a week in New York City's public schools and conducts a piano class in a workshop program at Harlem's Intermediate School 201 on Saturday mornings...
Sixty water department employees walked off their jobs Tuesday, July 24, to protest three one-day suspensions handed down by department superintendent William H. McGuiness to three truck drivers who refused to tow portable water compressors...
Fewer Deaths. Bypass surgery began with an unplanned and extreme measure taken in November 1964 by Dr. H. Edward Garrett at Houston's Methodist Hospital. Operating on a 42-year-old truck driver named Heriberto Hernandez, Garrett had expected to ream out a short stretch of clogged coronary artery and stitch over it a split piece of vein removed from the patient's own leg-what surgeons call a patch graft. Two main arteries proved to be so diseased that this procedure was not feasible. Garrett, who is now at the University of Tennessee's Medical Unit...