Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ages, of men and women, many wearing tri-color emblems or buttons that read: CHIRAC, I BELIEVE IN HIM (Chirac, J'Y Crois). Drawn by the old French hunger for strong chieftains, they had come more for the man himself than for the party. Said a truck driver, beaming: "If we are called, it's because we are needed." An old farmer remembered: "We stopped the Reds in 1924 this...
Socking it Back. One of the most vocal chokers has been Paul Clement, 45, a retired truck driver who lives on a dilapidated farm in a double-size trailer with his wife and three children, including a son now in the eleventh grade. Clement organized BELT (Better Education for Less Taxes) to fight back: "They won't take no for an answer. When we vote down the budget, they sock it back to us with the same figures...
...shade. Hot Rocks had nothing on this--only burnt your feet like those Pacific s-m islanders' who walk on red hot terraces. Memory Motel replaces the no-tell in this chivalric age. Just listen to the electric-heart-blending story of the pick-up truck girl if you doubt me. And if you've been crispy-ried black by the rest of this album run out to the hardware store for a $1.20 blue lightbulb, to Brattle Sq. florist for six peacock feathers--39 cents each--and find your latest Hawaiian Gold dispensing amigo. Settle down together and listen...
...Laumer, a Florida entrepreneur, such love (and money) spell opportunity. He knows the Model A inside out, having owned 13 himself and restored numerous others in his mechanic's shop. So he has decided to build brand-new Model A's (the 1930 roadster, coupe and pickup truck) to the original specifications in his barn outside Dade City. A smooth-riding demonstration car stands in the driveway as proof of production. List price...
...last week. While gardening on her Beverly Hills estate, Actress Katharine Hepburn stepped into a hole and fractured her ankle in three places. After missing three performances of A Matter of Gravity in Los Angeles, Trouper Katie returned to work in a wheelchair. Heavyweight Boxer Jerry Quarry, whose pickup truck rolled when it should have weaved, fractured two vertebrae and will be wearing a steel corset for at least six weeks. Finally, Actor Gene Hackman lay in a London hospital, undergoing treatment for a bruised sciatic nerve in his back. Hackman took a fall while filming a Foreign Legion adventure...