Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abductors 20 minutes with a tongue-lashing but was forced to go along anyway. The capture of tough Major General Deogracias Fonseca was noisy; a guard managed to scream: "Save yourself, General! They've come to kill you!" Struggling, Fonseca was hauled off bodily to his pickup truck...
...seizure of Lleras began well. A strange voice phoned the Lleras home to tell the candidate to get ready, that he was needed to help put down a plot against the junta. Lleras shaved, dressed and dutifully stepped into the military police truck that came to pick him up. But his captors committed the tactical error of racing past the presidential palace on their way to the barracks, and were stopped for speeding by the army's palace guards. The guards recognized the prisoner, leveled rifles at the military police, escorted Lleras to safety...
Reigning Cats & Dogs. In St. Louis County, Mo., State Weight Inspector Arthur J. Schneider stopped a truck, ordered the driver to rearrange his freight to take excess weight off the rear axle, sympathetically changed his mind when the driver told him the cargo was eight leopards, a cheetah, eight dogs and a panther...
Cost of Living. In Palencia, Spain, Angel Gonzalez Garcia, 36, threw himself in front of a passing truck, which crashed into a wall, ran in front of another, which rolled down a 20-ft. embankment, escaped from the two angry drivers by jumping on a nearby horse, galloping to a railroad bridge where he tied a rope around his neck and tried to hang himself, was cut down breathless but unhurt by passersby, ended up in jail charged with damages to the trucks...
McCANN-ERICKSON, which captured G.M.'s $24 million Buick ad account (TIME, Feb. 24), will also get company's $3,000,000 G.M.C. truck and motor coach billings. Detroit's Campbell-Ewald agency is favored to hook G.M.'s still-open Frigidaire account...