Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complicity by one of the North's universities, the kids in the South are seeing racism stripped of its Northern subtleties. They have come to see the South's dirt, and the South rubs the dirt into their eyes. They ignore places like The Plantation House, concentrate on truck stops and corner gas stations. They leave the South convinced that it must be hell...
...Silver Moon is not one of the South's classier joints. Its clientele consists of truck drivers and farmers, and the conversation runs to items like "Ah dam near runned over a nigger on the way into Mobile last week." I had come there to soak up the seamy atmosphere and tuck it away into my group of Southern Observations. So the men sat and talked, I sat and tucked, and eventually I left with no overt threats hanging over my head...
...thought a quick return to the hotel would be the safest plan, but I hadn't reckoned with redneck wilyness. As I neared the black part of Meridian, I realized that a pick-up truck was following me. Not thinking too well, I decided that the best thing to do would be to get out of town--I hadn't left anything in the hotel, and maybe my renunciation of BF Young would convince potential rednecks I was harmless...
...side of a Mississippi road the truck pulled up behind me. Three men were riding in the front, three in the back. They all jumped out, and I saw to my horror that they were Klansmen. Uniformed ones. This all seemed a little absurd; what had I really done? At the time, though, the "absurdity" was nudged out by a more persistent thought: I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die. I sat still in the car as they gathered around...
Even now, when the Ho Chi Minh trail often resembles a network of busy truck roads, the Communists still use elephants to haul their supplies. Not long ago, an American pilot sighted an elephant carrying rockets. His strafing run killed the animal and set off a series of secondary explosions. There was a slight dilemma on his return to base: should he put the event down as an enemy killed in action or as an enemy vehicle destroyed...