Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dispiriting Rationale. After a month of fighting, what had the South Vietnamese accomplished in Laos? For a brief period they managed to cut traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in half. By last week, truck movements were returning to normal, though most of the supplies were going to nearby Communist troops in Laos, instead of to enemy forces in Cambodia and South Viet Nam. The ARVN also counted 1,731 tons of food captured or destroyed, along with weapons for as many as nine battalions, 800 tons of ammunition, 108 tanks and 8,008 enemy killed in action...
...then Harold Hughes-once a truck driver, a reformed alcoholic, and now the dove senator from Iowa and unannounced Presidential hopeful-brought it home to Boston liberals last Saturday night at their Roosevelt Day dinner...
...Father Drinan's Congressional victory, and they assure Dukakis that they still love him, despite his defeat. At last, Hughes lumbers to the podium. As he stands you realize for the first time that he is a huge man, and for a moment you see him as a truck driver come to talk straight to these college-educated, refined suburbanites. But his deep voice quickly launches into a joke about Nixon and dispels the truck driver image. Once and for all, you know that the man is Harold, not Howard, Hughes...
...success and then call it off. What about the talk of severing the Ho Chi Minh Trail? "To really cut the trail," said a U.S. officer, "you would have to have ARVN stretched from one Laotian border to the other with their arms linked." Nevertheless, most estimates indicate that truck movements along the trail have already been halved...
Although the Great Southern experience left Ryder "more sober and more thoughtful," it did not keep him from experimenting. He considers himself something of a trucking consultant and has even endowed a chair at the University of Miami for transportation studies -partly to ease his own regret at not having had a college education. The Ryder corporation operates a 300-depot maintenance system that services other fleet owners as well as its own trucks, and has an engineering consulting division that advises truck buyers on their design needs and markets its own computer system. Last week Ryder and a consortium...