Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campus for U.S. military involvement in Korea, even among men who considered themselves liberals and who later opposed the U.S. role in Vietnam. Robert S. Harding '52, now a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist, voted for former president Dwight D. Eisenhower while Freedman was snaking through Cambridge on a sound truck campaigning for former Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-Ill.). Harding, who says he has subsequently "done a complete turnaround," perceived the mood then as "one of threat from the outside. Czechoslovakia had been overthrown a few years earlier and we were all genuinely afraid of being surrounded by communists. Sending troops...
Dual System. Last week's decision ended a long and hard-fought case against the Teamsters and T.I.M.E.-DC, Inc., a trucking company based in Lubbock, Texas, which the Government accused of discriminating against blacks and Hispanics in deciding who would get over-the-road driving jobs. As recently as 1971, only 13 of the company's 1,828 over-the-road drivers were members of minorities. Like almost all trucking companies, T.I.M.E.-DC had two seniority systems, one for over-the-road drivers, the other for workers in more menial jobs. If a warehouse cargo loader became...
Robert W. Keefer '72 said yesterday he will file the suit in Massachusetts Small Claims Court. He will ask for court costs, the alleged $2 overcharge for storing his pick-up truck, and up to $400 in punitive damages for "deliberately overcharging on storage rates...
Ellery Garage towed Keefer's truck away last April 19 after a Cambridge policeman placed an "abandoned" sticker on the vehicle. Keefer said the truck had been parked on the Cambridge street for about 12 hours, less than the 24-hour period required before law enforcement authorities can designate a parked vehicle as "abandoned...
Keefer picked up his truck at the Ellery Garage premises early on the afternoon of April 21, less than 48 hours after the towing company had removed the vehicle...