Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BUREN, ARK. (pop. 7,300), once-important frontier post, stagecoach stopover on Arkansas River in north-central Arkansas, corn, livestock, truck-crop center, home town of Humorist Bob Burns, few Negroes...
After the number of loose burros topped 300, Mayor Adolfo Santocchi decided to act. One day last week his men rounded up 20 burros, loaded them on a truck and drove away. Twelve miles out from town the burros were set down in a green valley, sheltered by hills and watered by a cool stream. In an address to the town by soundtruck, Mayor Santocchi explained that he had sought out the valley as a refuge-suitably distant-"where our plateritos can live happily and in peace." As his men began rounding up the rest of the strays, the mayor...
Poitier), chained together at the wrist, are the only two to escape when a prison truck cracks up in a ditch. Linked but loathing, they stumble through swampland, nearly drown fording a river, nearly wrench their arms from their sockets clawing out of a deep clay pit. When they pause, it is not to rest but to spit forth their hatred. Telling Poitier why he is a "nigger," Curtis says: "It's like callin' a spade a spade. I'm a hunky. I don't try to argue out of it." Replies Actor Poitier: "You ever...
...when the phone rang in the Cannes hotel room of Jean Cerrone, company manager of Manhattan's touring American Ballet Theatre. The news: a twelve-ton truck carrying most of the company's gear had gone up in flames. Cerrone mumbled "Merci," went back to sleep, 15 minutes later woke up again in a horrified double take. By the time he got to the scene of the fire, all the company's wardrobe trunks had been destroyed, along with scenery and props for twelve ballets, plus orchestra scores for four. Total damage, mostly coveted by insurance: about...
Weight Lifters. In Georgetown, Ky., P.S. Hickey, hauling watermelons, pulled his truck into a state weighing station, returned later on the tip-off of another driver and found six slobbering state employees stowing away part of his load...