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...with his co-driver Stogie; Number One Nose Picker noses ahead of his good buddy Squirrel. Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox. Even the handful of women truckers enter the naming game. Granny Go Go, Lovey Dovey and Truckin' Mama barrel on down the highway with the boys...
...casual clothes with touches of camp or swank. Result: a growing trend toward offbeat tops as snazzy, jazzy, individualistic mates for the denims. During the summer this took the form of T shirts with silk-screen designs (Marilyn Monroe pinups, for example), funny messages ("Keep on Truckin' ") or advertising slogans ("Try it, you'll like it"). For fall and winter the fad is expanding by borrowing-and satirizing-glitter notions that used to be reserved for evening wear...
...American civilians still in South Viet Nam, about 3,000 of them looking for work. Saigonese call them "the new carpetbaggers." They can be seen sipping beer on the terrace of the Continental Palace or walking on Tu Do Street in flowered, flared pants and "Keep On Truckin" T shirts. In just three months, International Personnel Services has recruited 500 customers. Says its manager, E.V. Nickerson: "There are a lot of Americans looking for work, and most of them don't know how to express themselves in writing. For a $100 membership, we write a resume and help...
...nearly bowled over by a bearded giant in blue jeans with a LOVE patch sewn on his backside, a KEEP ON TRUCKIN' T shirt stretched across his chest, and a fuzzy tam-o'-shanter perched on his head. He is squeezing the hand of his girl friend, a teased blonde in a Day-Glo orange pantsuit and sequined glasses, carrying a suitcase-size black patent leather handbag and a bag of candy. They crunch along through the litter of wrappers and handbills toward the star attraction, the dazzling Muzi-Kart, a customized 1933 Willys...
...most of his comics Crumb is either expounding this philosophy or applying it, foregoing plot and rationality to produce strips that give simple pleasure-"Keep on Truckin" is a series of five drawings of people with feet longer than their arms just walking along to the rhythm of the lyrics "Keep on truckin'. . . truckin' on down the line. . . hey hey hey. . . I said keep on truckin'. . . truckin' my blues away...