Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around the end of the first quarter, a very big yellow truck with "New England Power Company" written on it pulled out in front of the bleachers. Riding on the truck were three people. One of them wore the famous electric company yellow hat, which Boston TV fans have come to know through the ads the electric companies used to run on behalf of their "Big 11 Plus" power project. These ads have since been replaced by messages from Curt Gowdy, formerly our favorite Red Sox announcer in Beantown. These generally consist of Gowdy fishing downstream from a bright, clean...
...truck was the sort used by electric companies to raise their repairmen to a level with the electric lines. On the back was a large crane-like arm with two black man-holders. In the man-holders stood two photographers with up-to-date Super Zoom cameras...
...wanted him to do-but for the benefit of the Knapp Commission. Properly wired, he made a series of payoffs to the police, climaxed by a $30 bribe handed to two patrolmen right outside a station house. The transaction was filmed by a TV camera crew in a panel truck. The cops spotted the camera and pursued the truck. They managed to stop it, but let it go after the "producer" said they were only filming street scenes. Still, the cops were worried. What if the crew had been working for the Knapp Commission? One cop put in a call...
...maneuvering for a Franco-Russian treaty of friendship. Pompidou politely demurred, agreeing instead on an economic agreement under which trade will double to nearly $1 billion by 1976. It also calls on state-owned Renault to provide $222 million in technical assistance and equipment for the $1.2 billion Soviet truck plant on the Kama River; Moscow had tried unsuccessfully to get Ford, Mack Truck and Daimler-Benz to help...
...Displeasure. Some townspeople gave up and fled. Others daily swept piles of dead crickets from their houses for a huge truck to haul away. Schools closed because pupils could no longer concentrate...