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...again separated by an impassable no man's land. All plane seats out of the city were booked for the rest of the month. Other refugees fled up the mountain roads to small villages. "The mountains are the last safe place," said a carpenter as he filled his pickup truck with relatives and children. "It will not be possible to build a new life there, but we can stay alive. All we can do is hope for the best and expect the worst...
...people of the Detroit factory suburb of Wayne, he was the messiah from California. They boosted Howard Jarvis last week onto the back of a blue pickup truck, handed him a microphone, and waited for him to say what they wanted to hear. He readily obliged: "We want a reduction in the taxes in this state and every state...
...Glen Young, a farmer in Ravenna, Ohio, after a prolonged hassle, got Western Reserve Mutual to pay $2,100 for his pickup truck, which ran into a ditch and was totally wrecked last October. A few days later, says Young, "I was told that my coverage would be terminated in 15 days, not only on the policies on my three vehicles, but also on the farm policy I have had for eleven years with Western Reserve's sister company, Lightning Rod Mutual." Young protested to his Senator, Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, and his coverage was extended after an aide...
After the Wichita vote, teen-agers in pickup trucks shouted obscenities outside the Bus Station, a local gay club. But conservative Baptist leaders of Concerned Citizens carefully pointed out that they sought no persecution of homosexuals...
When McLean makes these modest pronouncements the most jaded students of high-stakes business sit up and listen, carefully. His record for earning money is awesome. Starting back home in North Carolina in 1934 with a down payment of $30 for a secondhand pickup truck, McLean built a substantial trucking concern and made millions. With additional backing from Ludwig, whose National Bulk Carriers operates supertankers, McLean founded Sea-Land Service, Inc., which grew into the nation's foremost containership operation. In 1969 he sold Sea-Land to Reynolds Tobacco for about $500 million. Then through his solely owned McLean...