Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...managed boxers, Eboli apparently was lured to a post-midnight meeting far from his Fort Lee, N.J., home by other mobsters on a pretext of discussing some urgent gang business. His burly chauffeur, Joseph Sternfeld, told police that Eboli was approaching his waiting car after the meeting when a truck sped past, shots erupted from it, and Eboli fell dead. Sternfeld said he did not see the killers. But he did not explain the contradictory fact that there were bloodstains on the inside of Eboli's car, and authorities held him as a witness under $250,000 bail. Eboli...
...early death, cutting off talent at its peak. Such was the tragedy last week of the Metropolitan Opera's new general manager, Göran Gentele, who was killed in an automobile accident while vacationing in Sardinia.* The car he was driving collided head-on with a truck, also killing two of Gentele's daughters and injuring his wife and a third daughter. "We're all in shock," said Met President George S. Moore. Abe Marcus, chairman of the Met's orchestra committee, spoke for the rank and file at the opera house when he said...
...company will be entitled to hire Soviet staff members and keep three U.S. employees in Moscow. Pullman has sold designs for five ammonia plants to the Soviets, and last December its Swindell-Dressier division won a $10 million contract to design the foundry of the huge new Kama River truck plant in the Tatar Republic. Says President Samuel B. Casey: "We expect to do a lot more business here...
...Croats now living in Western Europe and Australia. Making a mockery of Yugoslavia's border security, they crossed illegally into the country from Austria on June 26 with an arsenal of submachine guns, rifles with telescopic sights, pistols with silencers and a portable radio station. They stole a truck from a mineral-water bottling plant, hoisted the red-and-white checkerboard flag of Croatia, and drove 375 miles south. The band presumably expected to find popular support among the Croats, who make up the majority of the population in western Bosnia, a Ustaše stronghold during World...
...emerged from his box, so to speak, as one of the nation's most striking new folk talents. But he is still singing the blue-collar blues. His leisurely, deceptively genial songs deal with the disillusioned fringe of Middle America, hauntingly evoking the world of fluorescent-lit truck stops, overladen knickknack shelves, gravel-dusty Army posts and lost loves. In a plangent baritone that makes him sound like a young Johnny Cash, he squeezes poetry out of the anguished longing of empty lives...