Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pregnancy, Bhimani decided she wanted to keep the child. Noyes sued for custody. Then, just before the trial, he withdrew his suit, partly to avoid publicly divulging his wife's transsexuality-which came out, in court documents. That tidbit has since been publicized anyway, so Noyes, a truck driver who has invested more than $5,000 in his quest, may renew the custody fight...
...Tommy and Mae Rose Owens in Winter Park, Fla., a suburb of Orlando, to complete paperwork on the couple's federal loan for home improvement. But the Owenses were not there. Neither were the house and the yard. They had fallen-along with five expensive foreign cars, a truck, a parking lot, part of a four-lane road and much of a municipal swimming pool-into a sinkhole. That geological oddity resulted when underground limestone caverns, which are usually filled and strengthened by water, were gradually drained during a severe drought. The caverns collapsed, and a circular hole...
Archie McCardell, 54, came to International Harvester in 1977 with the express aim of saving the company. The new chairman of the truck and farm-and construction-equipment giant (1980 sales: $6.3 billion) was recruited from his job as president of Xerox to modernize and expand the firm, which up to then had been mainly family-run. After an initial success, however, McCardell and the company both met with trouble. International Harvester in its 1980 fiscal year lost $397 million and in the first quarter of 1981 another $96.4 million. It has also omitted its stock dividend for the first...
...gadgets are isolating. But another person with phones comes up and plugs into your music or you into his. There's a camaraderie among users. And now I smile when I walk, because I like what I'm listening to." As he strides off, a truck driver leans from his window in appreciation of a shapely woman crossing the street, small earphones pressed to her blond tresses. The driver shouts to her: "I know you can't hear me, but I think you're gorgeous!" She may never get the message...
DIED. Frank Fitzsimmons, 73, president of the 2 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters; of cancer; in San Diego. Fitzsimmons, a Detroit truck driver when he joined the Teamsters in 1934, served as business manager and vice president of the chapter headed by Jimmy Hoffa. When Hoffa was jailed on charges of jury tampering, conspiracy and fraud in 1967, Fitzsimmons became caretaker-manager of the union and later president, in 1971 (see BUSINESS...