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Indeed, care was increasingly warranted. By week's end there had been more than 1,000 incidents of violence. Trucks were hit by gunfire and damaged by brickbats and fire bombs; some had their tires slashed or were set afire. Although Capps was the only fatality, more than 50 others were injured, several seriously. Trucker Howard Abrams, 45, was shot in the chest while unloading his rig in Utah. A trucker in Michigan was wounded in the face by windshield glass when a shotgun blast hit his truck. And Melissa Sarsfield, 14, suffered a fractured skull when a brick...
Cicero can claim some recent ethnic diversification. About 5,000 Mexican Americans live on the shabby eastern edge of town, a sort of buffer with black west Chicago. Some 400 Asians live in Cicero as well. "Slant-eyed people may look funny," says a white Cicero truck driver, "but they work hard, stick to themselves, and keep their places clean...
Late one night in a suburban Denver parking lot, Stacey Johnson, then 19, was about to get into her car when Gary Tucker, 28, approached, saying that his pickup truck would not start. For two hours Johnson drove him around in search of jumper cables. When they returned to the lot, Tucker, without warning, stabbed Johnson seven times, inflicting wounds that hospitalized her for a month. Tucker was eventually sentenced to eight years for attempted murder, but Johnson wanted more. She filed a civil suit against him for $6 million in damages. Six jurors concluded that even this...
Burke remembers learning to skate in "a truck yard behind the house--a guy used to flood the garden and let it freeze." From the sound of it, he's barely stopped skating since, playing in the Pee Wee leagues for South Boston when he was seven or eight. "We played kids 10 or 11 or 12 years of age--we beat 'em. too," he says...
...possibilities of sculpture that has now vanished from Western art. "Oh, David," wrote his best friend Robert Motherwell, in one of the most moving valedictions ever offered to a dead artist by a live one, "you were as delicate as Vivaldi and as strong as a Mack truck." And so he was. -By Robert Hughes