Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cruisers? Dazzling convertibles or cute little bugs? Forget it. For any self-respecting American kid these days, the hottest vehicle suddenly seems to be a 1964 Ford Econoline van, say, or a beat-up GMC or scruffy Dodge A100 or-for the hipper elements-a Volkswagen Microbus or panel truck suitably scrunched around the fenders. There is method to this madness for vans: in increasing numbers the chunky vehicles are serving not only as transportation but also as mobile homes for the nation's youth...
...Patton, 39, goes camping in a 1957 VW beetle that "some hippie kids" helped him convert into a plywood paneled home that sleeps two, has a portable sink and four stained-glass windows. Says John Shaw, 18, who has just completed a transcontinental trek in his converted '56 truck: "It's a nice home-and there aren't any cockroaches...
...Good Humor truck jingled incongruously in the street outside, a leader of the Irish Republican Army hunched over a table in a small brick house in Belfast last week and described the battle plans of his illegal organization. "We're not strong enough for a victory like that of the Allies in Europe," he said quietly, "but we can make it so expensive that the British will have to cut their losses...
Last week's violence was set off by a tragic accident and the harsh action of a weak government. When a small delivery truck backfired at a traffic light in Belfast, a nervous British sentry apparently mistook the sound for a sniper's shot and gunned down the driver, a Catholic father of six. Catholic passions quickly rose to the flash point, and Protestant right-wingers demanded that British troops "take the gloves...
...search also produced reactions that Sheriff William Estes, who was in charge of the search, characterized as "nutty": crank callers suggested dressing the search teams in Santa Claus costumes to lure Kevin from the woods, or broadcasting the jingling song of an ice cream truck. After several fruitless days, the desperate searchers tried one of the schemes: the forest echoed eerily with the strains of one of Kevin's favorite songs, I Love Trash from Sesame Street...