Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truck driver, I was interested in your article, "A Song of the Open Road, 1970" [Sept. 14]. I will make it a point never to stop at the Dixie Truckers Home at McLean, Ill, because of the remarks made about truckers by Mr. John Geske. The $18,000 to $20,000 a year figure is more or less correct, but here is what it takes to earn that kind of money. A trucker is away from home sometimes for weeks, often driving trucks that are furnaces in summer and freezing in winter. A good percentage of truck drivers have chronic...
...hippies began to gather in a Houston schoolyard last week after an early morning rain. They spread their blankets and ponchos on the wet grass and talked quietly among themselves. Then a police paddy wagon and a pickup truck pulled up and the cops leaped out. There were yells-"Let's get the freaks!"-and the police proceeded to beat the young people mercilessly. But the confrontation's results were recorded on a score card instead of a police blotter or hospital admission form. They were playing softball...
Speeches and things: Speakers stand atop sound truck, and we all drip sweat. I write down every word I can get for the Post; don't feel like going through it again here. Spell speakers' names, with great difficulty, in French for woman from Montreal newspaper...
...Finland, to roll out 15,000 cars a year, about one-third of which will be sent back to Sweden; the Finnish workers get about half the pay that Saab's Swedish employees do. West Germany's Daimler-Benz has invested $6.6 million in a Yugoslav truck and bus plant and supplies technical help, in return for which it will get spare parts made for Daimler-Benz's German plants at low Yugoslav wage rates. Japanese manufacturers are dickering with India for component parts for sewing machines, autos, radios and bicycles...
...oddments, including furniture-store ads and letters to the Board of Public Utility Commissioners of the State of New Jersey. It has everything except a plot, though Williams claimed a narrative line "in which a little (female) Ford car falls more or less in love with a Mack truck." The Descent of Winter is the most multiform of the experiments, including poetry, narrative, criticism and autobiography. It is dense with the texture of Williams' America. Empty lots of dead grass with cinders gnawing at the borders. Children making mud dams in the gutters. Old women with seamed faces leaning...