Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lots and lots." Doctors in such cases often act alone and disconnect life-supporting machinery. "It is done all the time," says New Jersey Neurological Surgeon Arthur Winter. In Denver Anna Mair made the decision two years ago after her son David, 10, had been hit by a truck. Realizing that he would "never be anything but a shell," she told doctors to let him die. Sometimes, as in the Quinlan case, the parents find the doctor unwilling, either for ethical reasons or fear of a malpractice suit. In Elyria, Ohio, for example, Randal Carmen, 17, lapsed into a coma...
...home with Texas natives, and the odd characters who orbit around his highfalutin heroine regularly upstage her. In the book's best scene, for example, a jealous and not-too-bright husband tries to find his wife at the J-Bar Korral by driving through it in a truck. Aurora's plain, long-suffering daughter is as poignant as her mother is flashy, and her grim fate at the novel's end seems out of keeping with all the earlier slapstick. Yet McMurtry's skill and compassion all but hide his incongruities...
...plagued, 798-mile pipeline project, the debilitating race against wind and weather was the most serious setback yet. The barges contained thousands of tons of supplies-part of a $540 million cargo of fuel, cranes, transformers, sections of tall prefabricated buildings-too heavy or expensive to be moved by truck. There is a slim chance that the fleet could still get through-about 20% according to weather experts. Barring that, the delay may well mean the first trickle of oil will not begin flowing south to the deep-water port of Valdez on schedule in the summer...
...explanation, they began beating on his fenders with their nightsticks and smashed his windshield. After Prell spun away in panic, he ran through a roadblock of Jefferson County policemen. Two county cops pursued him, and when Prell refused to pull over, one fired three .38-cal. bullets into the truck. Prell eluded his pursuer and made it home unhurt. Although Prell himself called the Louisville Courier-Journal and three radio and television stations to complain, not a word of his ordeal was broadcast or printed. (The Courier-Journal finally printed the story last week only after TIME started checking...
...years ago. "If you want to travel safely, the only way to go is CB," says Kansas Highway Patrol Sergeant Oscar Becker. He adds dryly: "And there's a lot more wit on CB than you'll get on TV." Perhaps. From the elevated perch in a truck cab, drivers are ever alert to the virtues of attractive legs in passing cars. Reported one who got but a fleeting glance: "I've got my mind on what I'm doing, trying to catch up with a super pair of seat covers...