Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Notre-Dame Cathedral. "This is the S.A.O.," he barked. "Yes, the S.A.O. We're giving you Argoud. He betrayed us, bungled all the jobs he was supposed to organize, particularly the Petit-Clamart affair. You can take delivery of him now. He's in a blue truck in the alley opposite Notre-Dame...
...elegant villa for the pleasure of the crowds that cluster outside the open French windows. Sometimes he packs his three oak organs on the back of a red and blue furniture van and takes his music on the road, like a traveling medicine show. Whichever, the driver of the truck and the owner of the villa bears one of the most celebrated names in European music: Von Karajan-Wolfgang von Karajan...
Shell homes were launched 17 years ago by an enterprising young truck driver named Jim Walter, who went into busi ness with $600 borrowed from his father. The idea had great appeal to returning servicemen, who did not yet have it made and were handy with their hands. By 1961, shell firms accounted for 8% of the one-family housing market and had be come one of Wall Street's bets on the future. But fast-buck builders swarmed in, competition stiffened, and many firms began putting up frames with little regard for quality or adequate financing...
Wilson's 144-103 victory was a crushing blow to his chief rival, comradely George Brown, 48, a staunch trade unionist and ex-truck driver, who as acting party leader since the death last month of Hugh Gaitskell, had every reason to believe that he would inherit the mantle of leadership. But when the voting began last week, it was George Brown's old friends among Labor's trade unionists who abandoned him first. Some opposed his pro-Common Market views; others among Labor's intellectual center and right flinched at the thought of a working...
...chateau dwellers in France's Loire River Valley, the vegetable dealers in London's Covent Garden and the truck assembly-line workers in Hagerstown, Md., probably have no idea of how closely their lives are linked to a New York and Chicago firm called the Fantus Co. Fantus is the world's largest and busiest company devoted to an increasingly important specialty: searching out new plant sites for corporations and advising job-starved towns on what sort of new industries they are best suited to attract. Last week it started work on the most far-reaching project...