Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agents boarded an express truck delivering baggage to a building in Hoboken, NJ. When two men later left the building with the bags, the agents arrested them, recovered 687 kg. of marijuana and 202 gm. of heroin. Baggage checks taken from one of the captives led to caches of narcotics at railroad stations in Poughkeepsie and Albany, N.Y., and Philadelphia. >- In April 1963, a narcotics agent in Turkey wormed his way into the confidence of a band of international traffickers headed by the former mayor of a Turkish city. The agent arranged to buy 18 kg. of morphine base...
Jouncing along the dusty, crushed-rock ribbon of road behind the wheel of a green Ford pickup truck, Hatcher M. James Jr., 41, an American AID officer in Dinh Tuong province, surveyed with satisfaction the peasants on either side peacefully tilling fields of green beans, tomatoes, melons. He waved at Vietnamese small fry, moonfaced boys and graceful schoolgirls in black sateen pants, who broke into excited smiles as the truck sped by and called out in English "hello hello" and "okay okay...
...should we suspend any predilection toward valuative judgement. Throughout the film we must experience the world in terms other than our own. In one scene (when we follow Pierre's desperate race to the convent) it bounces madly by us in the rear-view mirror of a truck. In a restaurant party, a babbling couple are grotesquely distorted through the stem of Pierre's champagne glass...
Tanner calls the heart of his device a comparator. It works with a sensitive receiver that pulls in a signal from a TV home receiver and compares it with all signals being broadcast by TV stations. The device fits into a panel truck that is driven around city streets, sweeping up signals from all TV sets in the area and calculating what channels they are tuned to. Tanner makes the ambitious claim that it can read a whole apartment building as easily as a private house. The truck moves along at 15 m.p.h. while the machine counts 106 sets...
...westward ever so slowly and flaying the cotton-frothed, billiard table flatness of the Delta. Stilted shacks in willow-ringed hollows; tall merciless lilywhite factory stacks; "The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Welcome you to Tchula;" grinning, barefoot, ragged black boys skimming along the highway on a pickup truck; Tall, gaunt, stooped, tobacco chewing, strawhatted farmers--black and white. Neat brick middle-class American homes...Troopers and policemen everywhere, fat comic opera sherrifs in stenciled boots and stetsons. "K.O. the Kennedys!--Vote Rubel Phillips (Rep)" billboards, "Maintain White Democratic Solidarity--Vote Paul Johnson (Dem)" billboards, Kiwanis! Rotary! Order...