Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children and press are to be allowed in. Except for Betty Freidan, the strike's national coordinator, without press card or child. And Bella Abzug, Congressional candidate. Not, however, Lucy Komisar, national Secretary of NOW, who is wearing slacks and hurling insults and behaving unlike a lady. A sound truck plays, over and over again, a recording of Liberation Now, the strike's official song. Liberation Now is a terrible song...
...Gregory, pretty waitresses are the most important thing about a truck stop. "It means a lot to come into a place where you're recognized and know the girls," he says. It is a relief from the forced comradeship of the cab. Drivers usually work with the same partner for six months, which can make for trouble. Says Paul Hadaway, a vice president of Navajo Freight Lines: "Rifts between drivers often start over questions of hygiene in the cab and build to criticism of driving technique. When you're in the cab with that fellow for weeks...
...Interpol, the Nicosia air controllers were suspicious. Trailing the plane on radar, they watched it head toward Lebanon. The plane flew so low that it eluded Beirut radar, but Lebanese police started an immediate countrywide search. Within minutes, a police patrol found the Martin 202 parked alongside a large truck on a remote airstrip in the hashish-growing area of Baalbek, near the Syrian border. As police and truck guards fought a gun battle, the plane took off amid a hail of bullets...
...Aleksei Kosygin signed the Treaty of Moscow, economic cooperation between West Germany and the Soviet Union was already on the road. West Germany's Daimler-Benz last week confirmed rumors that it is indeed negotiating with the Soviets to build what would be the world's largest truck plant on the banks of the Kama River, 560 miles east of Moscow. The West German automaker also announced that Soviet Automobile Minister Aleksandr Tarasov will go to Stuttgart later this month to discuss the project. As a spokesman for Daimler-Benz put it: "Good economic relations...
Daimler-Benz, Western Europe's largest manufacturer of heavy trucks, as well as the producer of the elegant Mercedes automobiles, is trying to line up a consortium of Common Market truck makers for the Soviet project. Discussions are already under way with France's Renault. Another likely member is Italy's Fiat, which is building a huge auto plant in Stavropol, which was renamed Togliatti in honor of the late Italian Communist leader. Daimler-Benz wants help in financing the $1.09 billion project; the Soviets will repay the loan over a long term at rates...