Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From every direction, patrol cars with singing sirens poured into the area. Firemen wearing their full gear pulled up with a truck and got ready to use their hoses. The cops barricaded the streets. Pushing, clubbing, shoving, cursing, they beat their way through the throngs, filled their paddy wagons with the Negroes and drove them off to jail...
...jagged, 1,000-ft.-wide ravine runs 150 ft. deep and a mile long, an ugly supergully slashing between the green campuses of Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Pittsburgh. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad rumbles along its bottom, flanked by a few slum houses, construction storage yards, truck depots and a junkyard. Most cities would give it up as a desolate though semiserviceable eyesore. Not Pittsburgh, which has announced plans to convert the 75-acre Panther Hollow wasteland into a $250 million research center...
...viewer could appreciate. Last week came another one, as he told his little boy in flashbacks the story of the hours before the child's birth. Semper paratus, he slept in his clothes, dashed around like a nut, and smashed up his car in the driveway. A laundry truck had to drive his wife to the hospital...
...obscure truck driver until he was killed in an accident last August, but today Lei Feng is Red China's newest folk hero. Otherwise celebrated as the Forever Rustproof Screw, young Communist Lei Feng soared to posthumous fame when party officials conveniently discovered a 200,000-word diary that established him as the Confucius of collectivism. By contrast with the vast majority of China's peasants, whose reluctance to be herded into agricultural communes in 1958 has been largely responsible for the nation's persistent food shortages, Lei Feng actually waxed lyrical over such selfless, soulless "service...
...Fault. Boycotts occasionally backfire because the companies involved are not really at fault. Hit by selective buying in Los Angeles, Anheuser-Busch showed that it was ready to hire Negro truck drivers but that the Teamsters Union was not. Against such union discrimination, some Negro boycott leaders are considering a new wrinkle, which they learned from labor itself: a general strike of all Negro workers that would call attention to the situation...