Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Actress Liv Ullmann that he lowered the age of the fortyish heroine of Forty Carats (who has an affair with a 20-year-old boy). He has copped out on us women in our 40s who have married 20-year-olds. May he be run into by lady truck drivers, may all his female associates over 40 go on strike, and may Oscar evade him forever. Why can't Hollywood leave a good thing alone...
...market, a hospital and barely 5,000 inhabitants. In the early morning hours of Oct. 28, Keng Kok's immunity suddenly came to an explosive end. Two North Vietnamese companies, aided by local Pathet Lao allies, slipped into the town. Two missionaries trying to escape in their pickup truck were stopped at an NVA roadblock; they were eventually marched away to an unknown fate. When Royal Laotian Army troops managed to retake the town four days later, they found the charred bodies of two other missionaries, both of them women, tied to posts in their burned-out house. Nearby...
...unions to allow workers to greet their returning hero. There was one mini uprising on Perón's behalf. On the capital's outskirts, 60 noncommissioned officers tried to take over an Argentine Navy mechanics school. Meeting resistance, they took four hostages and escaped in a truck and an ambulance, killing a school guard in the process. In little more than an hour, they surrendered...
...midst of all this legal maneuvering, a number of potential witnesses have died under mysterious circumstances. A car carrying three of them-including a woman member of the March 22 group-was crushed in September 1970 by a truck that suddenly backed into it; the unknown driver of the vehicle escaped. Two others connected with the case, who were listed by police as suicides by gas, had suspicious bruises on their bodies. An anarchist named Giuseppe Pinelli fell to his death while being questioned about the bombings. His widow is suing seven policemen for homicide, based on evidence gathered...
...guests dine royally; one recent meal was wild boar served with a 15-year-old California wine. Yet at 5:30 a.m., Sebastiani breakfasts in simple style with workers at a roadside inn, pausing on a drive to the vineyard. "All day long I drive around in a pickup truck and wear overalls, but I've got a reason for living that the guys who try to buy me out just don't understand," he says. "I could make more money elsewhere, but I would always come back to wine...