Word: truck
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This week the Teamsters' 21-member executive board meets in Las Vegas to pick a replacement. The leading candidate is Roy L. Williams, 66, a protégé of Fitzsimmons'. The president of union Local 41 in Kansas City, Mo., Williams began driving a truck in 1935 and joined the Teamsters three years later. As a trustee of the Teamsters' $2.8 billion Central States pension fund, Williams has been probed by federal officials for mismanagement and ties to organized crime. He has been indicted three times on federal embezzlement and records falsification charges, but never convicted...
They have charged that in the event of a fire the building, which is not equipped with automatic sprinklers, would become a deathtrap, as prisoners and workers would be unable to leave by elevator or stair, and fire truck ladders could not reach them...
Commission's Houston office. Their fortunes will depend on the skills they bring. Lyle Cousins, 39, a truck driver from Goodrich, Mich., had no problem. "I came to Houston on a Friday, got my Texas driver's license on Monday and started work on Tuesday," says Cousins, whose living-room couch has been occupied ever since by friends and relatives in town to find...
...want to miss this. This is one I for the history books," said a woman who waited all night outside London's Central Criminal Court. The attraction for curiosity seekers was Peter Sutcliffe, 34, a softspoken, bearded truck driver from the West Yorkshire mill town of Bradford, who seemed an unlikely focus for the notoriety surrounding the "Yorkshire Ripper" murder cases...
...nearby, and crawls under the bed to investigate. A spin along a velvet-lined roller coaster track treats him to a panorama of his past sexual encounters. At the bottom of the track, in hideous anticipation, wait the women of the convention. They hurl him into a cage and truck him off to his trial. Acquitted of an unknown crime. Snaporaz elects nevertheless to suffer the punishment: revelation of his Ideal Woman...