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...reluctant to discuss the details of her splintered childhood. Hite was born Shirley Diana Gregory in 1942 in St. Joseph, Mo. Her father Paul Gregory, a serviceman and flight controller, and her mother divorced shortly after the end of World War II. Her mother later married Raymond Hite, a truck driver, who legally adopted her. After 2 1/2 years that marriage dissolved. Throughout the turmoil, Shere (short for Shirley) lived on and off with her grandparents, who, after a 30-year marriage, also divorced. Her grandfather, Alexander Hurt, acted as a surrogate father, although Shere remembers that...
Unlike the car, truck and bus, the bike does not spew stinky fumes and carcinogens. A bike is easy to park in a sliver of space, and of precious oil it needs only a smidgen to keep the wheels squeakless. Riders may turn rowdy, but the vehicle itself is quiet -- a blessed virtue amid the squawk-bleat- scream-grind-growl-honk-toot-wail-shr iek that is the voice of the big city...
...claim to be protecting him and, having made his escape, reduced to the status of a fugitive in rags who fears for his life and does not know where he will be safe. As he descends into the underworld, haunted by undercover agents and herded from truck to shadowy truck, the highest cleric in the land finds himself in touch for the first time with the masses he claims to represent. He also finds himself increasingly, and in every way, in the dark...
Then to my amazement, a group of young Filipino boys dashed into the field of gunfire stooping low and ducking every few steps. They seemed to be heading for an abandoned truck. When we asked what was going on, a man showed us a bullet he had plundered earlier from the truck as a souvenier. Apparently the boys hoped that both the government and the rebels would take care not to shoot them even though it was known that earlier the rebels had opened fire on a crowd of pro-government civilians...
...Labor's list of the most dangerous industries is meat-packing, where more than 3 out of 10 employees get hurt or become sick in work-related incidents every year. Also exceeding the national average: companies that make mobile homes (a 27.6% annual injury-and-illness rate in 1985), truck- and auto-body manufacturers (23.4%), building construction firms (15.1%) and farmers...