Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exercise caused or contributed to the deaths of 33 men, including six in aircraft crashes, five by drowning, five in truck accidents, and two sleeping soldiers who were run over by a tank...
...Small Bites. Once they can read and write, the adults join 384 others in vocational training. At Studebaker's abandoned truck assembly plant, they are taught new skills-data processing, air-conditioning maintenance-by non-professional teachers who are experts at their trade. Says Harry Lane, 46, who gave up his used-car lot and repair shop to become a teacher: "It's like teaching a baby to eat. You have to do it in small bites." But the work is rewarding: "Three men out of my first class are now making more money than they ever made...
...intercession by the U.S., Russian and British ambassadors, Souvanna agreed to resume his premiership, backed by the rightists and his own neutralist battalions. The men of the Communist Pathet Lao, who hold the central and northern portions of the country, remained outside the government and were nourished by lengthy truck convoys lurching down dusty Route 7 from the North Viet Nam frontier...
...brother likes to zoom along in high gear, but Sam Houston Johnson, 50, is a more conservative Texas sort: he just gets into trouble going backwards. Last week, he backed his 1964 Pontiac out of an Austin parking lot, then banged into a passing delivery truck, wound up with "minor fender" damage, a ticket for reckless driving and a $10 fine...
...lives than others realize. And what we have to have the courage to do is to face those problems honestly inside ourselves." In a speech at the University of Portland, he asked, "What do the absent advocate? Where do the silent stand?" He clambered to the top of a truck on a rainswept street to tell a knot of curious bystanders: "If you vote Friday, remember my name. It's Nelson Rockefeller. Thanks, folks." His tiny audience stood huddled and shivering. But Rocky's warmth and determination were coming through...