Word: truck
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...clock, it has had a long and illustrious history. According to Baybank, in the early 60's an errant truck sidewsiped it, smashing the time-keeper but leaving the post intact. Similar tragedy befell the clock in 1964 when another semitrailer ran over the landmark demolishing both the clock, and its post. In July 1965, the bank reinstalled the clock one more time, but a Harvard Trust's distinctive clock is back in business...
...Silence. Last week Charles Ostrout, 51, and Ronald Allen King, 45, were arrested by FBI agents in California and charged with conspiring to rob Brink's main storage vault in San Francisco. Ostrout was also charged with the sensational $3.6 million heist last July of a Brink's truck in Northern California. The arrests culminated an investigation that included the arrest in late November of Gary Lee Yarborough, allegedly a Brotherhood leader and a suspect in the murder of Alan Berg, a Denver radio talk show personality...
...Renault earning a reputation as a visionary car executive. The architect of Renault's move into the U.S. market, he took part in the development of the successful R-5 subcompact (Le Car) in the 1970s. The company now owns 46% of American Motors and 41% of Mack Trucks. Both have become profitable bright spots in the company's panorama of gloom. AMC made an estimated $15 million last year, after years of losses, while Mack has been in the black since Renault bought into the heavy-truck manufacturer...
...featured two innovations. One was the inclusion of the dean of the diplomatic corps, the Soviet Union's longtime Ambassador to Washington, Anatoli Dobrynin. The other was an invitation to six "real people," as Mathias called them, from around the nation. Selected through professional associations, the group includes a truck driver from Alabama, a union official from Maryland, a farmer from Kansas, a fire fighter from Texas and a businesswoman from California. For the sixth, Buffalo Narcotics Agent Joe Petronella, the invitation presented a problem: he specializes in undercover work requiring disguises and refuses to be photographed. Even...
...inclined to let it go, like the football. " 'Throw from your ear,' he told me, 'don't wind up. Do it that way now, even though it's harder, and when you're bigger and stronger, you'll be glad.' " Asked if his dad, who drives a newspaper truck in Pittsburgh, happened to have a particular love of sports, Marino replies perfectly, "He happened to have a particular love of his children." For a happy period, their work and school shifts coincided. "He would hit me grounders, or we'd throw the football. 'Don't think you have...