Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looked back at me. I slouched down in the chair and tried to remember jokes my mother might have liked. Twenty-four hours. Jesus. I got claustrophobic. Twenty-four hours. I tried to stay calm. On the New Jersey Turnpike the tension broke when we passed a good-looking truck driver and one woman in back shouted, "Check it out!" The rest of the passengers hooted and waved. They were away from husbands and families and they were feeling it. I smiled. It was a high school field trip...
Down through Delaware and Maryland these mothers and even grandmothers on the lam from home for a few days checked out the truck drivers, waved at cute boys, and nudged each other incessantly. After dark they started in on a round of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall." As the night drew on they moved to moodier songs, including some of Elvis's. Twenty middle-aged women singing "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" on a Greyhound bus. Although there were men on the bus, there were only three besides myself. One had been dragged along by his wife--he hunched...
...leaving formerly cultivated farm land to revert to desert. At the same time, Iran, which for ages had been all but self-sufficient, suddenly had to import more than 60% of its food products. Along with imports of food came more than 1 million foreign workers: Pakistani and Filipino truck drivers, Indian engineers, Korean and Japanese workers - to say nothing of the more than 40,000 American military and civilian personnel whose advice and training were needed for the new weapons and industries. But for most Iranians the pattern of life changed slowly, if at all. Most villages still lack...
...would be fined or jailed for flouting them. But Administration inflation hawks are discussing other ways to dun the disobedient. The most obvious is to withhold federal contracts from companies that violate the standards. Some other ideas: lean on the Interstate Commerce Commission to reject any rate increases that truck lines might seek in order to pay for a high settlement with the Teamsters; let in more lower-cost imported steel if American mills raise prices too much. Government officials are talking about administering the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in a way that would hold construction wages down rather than...
With King of Hearts, Brackman and his cohorts face not only the usual problems inherent in a Broadway-bound show (last week the truck carrying some of the sets up to Boston was fire-bombed by Molotov-happy kids, delaying the opening by a full week), but the special problem of transferring a beloved movie--a cult film, particularly in Cambridge, where it ran for five and a half years--into a popular musical. DeBroca's fable of lovable loonies running rampant in an abandoned French town during World War I has a dedicated following, may of whom aren...