Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alongside the stream, the neon lights of the handful of motels and restaurants wink on. A heavy truck, loaded with cut pine, rumbles past on U.S. 20. Off to the west, Bishop Peak turns indigo. As the darkness unfurls, Lempke stands in a spot he has stood in a hundred times before, watching his fish move downstream. He pauses for a moment, then, feeling the pressure on the line, moves downstream. "Look at the son of a gun go," he says to no one in particular, and pulls his hat closer to his skull...
...Buffalo stations, evoked praise and sympathy from city officials to the man on the street, as well as controversy. "He should have kept on stabbing," said a bartender in downtown Buffalo. "He did what any father would have done, and he shouldn't be charged." Williams, a truck driver and avowed street minister, was arrested for first-degree assault. He spent one night in jail; a sympathetic judge freed him the next day on an unsecured $10,000 bond. "Cop after cop came up to him in the cell and congratulated him," said Paul J. Cambria, a prominent Buffalo...
...like drive-ins for most of the old reasons. On a good night, families bring lawn chairs to make themselves comfortable; affectionate teen-agers still cause the windows to steam up; and good ole boys still load up their pickups with coolers of beer. Paul Bierle, a Southern California truck driver, brags that he has not patronized an indoor theater for ten years. "You can't smoke in walk-ins," he says. "You can't put your feet up, and you can't talk." Nor, he might have added, can you set off firecrackers. A few weeks...
Executives of Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corp. spent 15 months negotiating with Tennessee state officials over the site for a $660 million assembly plant that produced its first light truck in Smyrna in June. "The Japanese practice of asking the same questions ten to twelve times, of four or five different sources, greatly protracted the talks," recalls Joseph Davis, director of international marketing for Tennessee...
...penultimate minute, another empty theater was found. Cast, friends and well-wishers trekked 21 blocks accompanied by an upright piano in a truck. Blitzstein and the piano took the sceneryless stage, and as the composer played the score, the actors, scattered through the house, stood up and delivered their lines. The event took the audience and the next day's front pages by storm...