Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles from Wall Street to the East Bronx. Another had his wife sail their Chris-Craft 30 miles down the Hudson to pick him up at the 79th Street marina. A dozen passengers crossed the East River to Queens in the back of an armored car; aboard a flatbed truck, threescore executives toting attache cases jounced happily home across the 59th Street bridge...
...return for showing up when they didn't want them. Just as we established ourselves on the 50-yard line, the TV-camera truck started to move, headed right for our choice location. "Stay there, girls," yelled the fans. "Don't let them block our view." You could see their point. They hadn't paid six dollars apiece for the best tickets, only to spend the game looking at a great big yellow truck. But that same yellow truck was now relentlessly bearing down on us. Loyalty to the fans is one thing, but there are limits. We moved...
...nuts-and-bolts field of truck selling, Ford has chosen gentle Silent Film Veteran Buster Keaton as its pitchman. In one new commercial, Keaton fills up a truck with furniture only to find that he has left out a live lion...
When Keaton loads him on another truck, the lion drives off. Buster is last seen in hot pursuit, his legs whirring away at silent-movie speed...
Died. Roy August Fruehauf, 57, president and then chairman of Fruehauf Corp., world's largest maker of truck trailers (1964 sales: $313 million) founded by his father in 1918, who in 1953 squeezed his brother out as chairman and staved off a muchpublicized proxy raid with the aid of a $1,500,000 stock-purchase loan from then Teamster Boss Dave Beck, five years later found himself indicted along with Beck for repaying the favor with a $200,000 loan of his own (illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act), was eventually acquitted, but not before a group of dissident...