Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Garbage truck compactors: 70 db for models made after...
...million. U.S. firms, the names of which the partners refuse to disclose, would supply technology for the undertakings. Last week Stowell was in Moscow, trying to arrange the sale of U.S. petroleum-testing equipment to the Soviets and the construction of a bearing plant at the Kama River truck factory. "We feel that we are in a good position to learn about which of the five-year projects in Eastern Europe has reached an economic or political bottleneck," says Johnson. "At that stage, we take the problem to U.S. firms...
...widow tells how her husband, a prosperous Belfast businessman, tried to defuse a bomb that blew him apart. Ophuls ends this superb and important film with memories of a teen-age schoolgirl killed accidentally as she rode home from a dance one night in an ice-cream truck. An innocent life, a senseless death: the fury and the contradiction and the hopelessness of the whole situation come down, for Ophuls, finally to this. A Sense of Loss is the cinematic essay at its very finest. Scrupulously fair, profoundly humanistic, undetected by rhetoric and propaganda, Ophuls is the Orwell...
...Keith Sykes) as he skulks round Japan, looking for help and a place to hide after he goes AWOL. He is aided by sympathetic families, a bar girl, a truck driver and, ultimately, by a counseling group that convinces him that going back to base, then turning himself in, is the best thing to do. Hiroshi Teshigahara's previous film, Woman in the Dunes, (1964), was overburdened by a kind of febrile surrealism, but it at least demonstrated energy. Summer Soldiers is slackly directed in a trumped-up documentary style. Jim is a numbingly inarticulate spokesman for war resistance...
...Ryan was born in 1912 in the small town of Ely, Nev. to an Irish copper miner and his German wife. Before she was two, her father moved the family to Artesia, Calif., where he bought a ten-acre truck farm. Pat's mother died when she was 13, leaving her to do all the housework and some of the fieldwork. Eleanor Stegeberg was born in 1921 on a South Dakota farm at the outset of the great farm depression. Her mother died when she and her twin sister Ila were eleven. There was never much money but there...