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...Postal Service is not pleased about the shipment, which will cost about $180,000 to deliver by truck and plane. But the agency can find nothing illegal about Krogstad's parcels, which weigh a few pounds less than the 70- lb. maximum for regular mail...
...story," Mary McGarry Morris begins her first novel. "It starts once upon a summer day in Vermont." A half-naked Lorelei picks up a child-man who is working on roads for the county. The simpleton extends "his tarry hand." Immediately the voluptuous girl steals a pale blue pickup truck and waits for him on the soft shoulder of the highway. In a fast page, she has kidnaped a baby girl, and in what seems like five minutes after their first meeting, the three have driven into the Twilight Zone, only one as it might be seen through the lens...
Particularly questionable was a $2,000 payment on April 1, 1987, by the Oshkosh Truck Corp. to each of six House Armed Services Committee members just for coming to breakfast. A few hours later, an Armed Services subcommittee passed a measure to force the Army to buy 500 more Oshkosh trucks than it needs. Coincidence, says Oshkosh...
Welcome to Redbud, Andy and Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith). He hopes to write that big novel; she's looking for peace and quiet. Instead they find a snake in their living room, a corpse in the garden and a mailman who thinks he's Mad Max in a pickup truck. The deepest injury is to Andy's authorial ego, when his book turns out stinky and she writes next year's best seller. In Smith's bruised glare you can see the befuddled pain of anyone married to a blockhead with writer's block. But that's just subplot. The main...
...customers must wait as long as five months for delivery. To appease impatient Continental buyers, Ford has started to send them $20 Cross pen-and-pencil sets along with an apologetic note; one customer returned the gift, expressing a preference for the car. Hottest of all are Ford's trucks: last year more than 550,000 of the F-Series pickups (base price: $10,176) were sold, putting them ahead of any other truck or car line...