Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...armored Brink's truck pulled up to the Nanuet National Bank near suburban Nyack, N. Y., shortly before 4 p.m. and two guards began loading $1.6 million in cash. Suddenly three armed men in ski masks jumped out of a red van and opened fire. One guard was killed instantly and the other critically wounded. The three bandits and an accomplice dashed off with the loot. "They didn't even ask them to hand over the money," declared an incredulous witness. "They just blasted away...
...takes everything out of drawing that was tedious. We never have to start from scratch any more." Adds one of his co-workers happily: "Once you learn how to use the system, it's great." Koltanbar's principal customer seems to think so too. At the GMC Truck & Coach Division plant in Pontiac, Mich., where the company is producing trucks, Koltanbar-designed robots man the assembly line, which itself was laid out by Koltanbar designers peering silently into their screens...
Take the Claribel hostile fire indicator. This truck-mount - ed radar "tracks bullets ... and pinpoints their source but," adds the knowing copywriter, "ignores stones or bricks...
...Kabul River, the faithful gather for midday prayers. Most are old men, many of them crippled. In the midst of their worship, the droning incantations from the loudspeakers on the minarets are momentarily drowned out by the roar of two camouflaged MiG-21s streaking toward targets upcountry. Outside, a truck goes by with two Soviet soldiers in the back. They wear wide-brimmed khaki ranger hats and olive-drab bulletproof vests, and they hold their Kalashnikov assault rifles at the ready, barrels upright, on their knees...
...protest that both spoke of frustration and a sense of enveloping helplessness. Silver-haired Chicago Businessman William H. Hoyerman, 55, walked outside the red brick entrance of his truck-body plant, General Body Co., and lowered the American flag to half-mast. He then sent letters to his suppliers and customers, exhorting them to do the same. Said he: "Let us fly our flags at half-mast in mourning for the millions of employees and businesses like ourselves, who are being hurt by high interest rates...