Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...south of SoHo), are undergoing strikingly imaginative renovation. Neighborhood and block associations have proliferated, increasing New Yorkers' sense of community and their feeling that they are not at the mercy of an anonymous city bureaucracy. If a neighborhood association makes a fuss about infrequent trash collections, a sanitation truck shows up fairly promptly. A certain new self-reliance is evident among New Yorkers, who on their own are reclaiming parks, planting community gardens, developing day care activities; if city hall is busy just keeping the entire government out of debtors' prison, residents conclude they must act for themselves...
...rise in tourism so far this year, and by the end of 1978, officials expect to have welcomed a whopping 37 million visitors-one for every Spaniard. Those numbers will probably continue to rise in the future, despite last month's calamitous explosion of a chemical truck killing more than 150 campers. The government has legalized gambling at 18 resorts, mainly on the coast, and four of the planned casinos have just opened. The 150-mile Costa del Sol is already overcrowded. Sewage treatment in some places is appalling; human feces bob up and down among the bathers...
Last week police found him dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in the cab of a pickup truck in Emigration Canyon, a few miles east of the city. Rachel took the news of his suicide calmly, telling officers that her husband was ready for life in the next world, and returned to the suite...
...Long Island, an enraged driver who thought he had been cut off smashed the offending vehicle with an ax. In a lane-changing argument . in Sacramento, a passenger in a pickup truck shot and killed the driver of the other car. After a near collision in Virginia, two drivers tried to settle matters by staging a shootout. "This is getting more common," says a Chicago Police Lieutenant. "Everybody seems to be uptight." Even some men on his own force. In the Windy City last year, two off-duty officers were fired and one was placed on probation for attacking other...
There were, of course, a few dropouts, but most victims of blisters, cramps, aches and fatigue were back on the road after a few hours in a trailer called the Sag Wagon. Not so fortunate was Pat Doyle, 20, a truck driver from Dubuque, who vowed at the start to "drink a beer at every saloon on this ride." Alas, for the pride of the Doyles, Pat crashed his bike on the fourth day in Iowa Falls, all those saloons and 250 miles from the last watering hole in Clinton. For those who made it from river to river, surviving...