Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Powered by short-stroke engines, "off-road vehicles" ride on bloated tires or whirling treads that enable them to go almost anywhere at average speeds of 30 m.p.h. Proliferating from Maine to California, they now include 200,000 dune buggies, 2,000,000 trail bikes, 1,100,000 snowmobiles and, newest of all, 25,000 all-terrain vehicles (ATVs...
...carrier Hancock, which came from its home base in Alameda, Calif. joined the carrier Oriskany in the Tonkin Gulf to launch a strike over a 2000-mile stretch of the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...wife appeared on the campaign trail only at its end, and shared in his satisfying moment of victory. A private person, she could not have taken much comfort from a friend's comment: "I have the strange feeling we've seen Jim as a private person for the last time...
...what he had been waiting for. He was the only one of his father's three sons who chose to follow him, and he made his decision early. In 1948, when he was 17, young Adlai chauffeured the older Stevenson-in a battered Chevrolet-along the campaign trail. In good political form, however, he now disclaims presidential ambitions for himself. But he adds: "I do have a son coming along. Adlai the Next we call him, and I wouldn't mind seeing him President...
...seem eager to do much business with them. Henry Ford was invited to build a truck plant in Russia, but he backed away from the proposal after Defense Secretary Melvin Laird publicly warned that Ford's trucks might ultimately end up rumbling down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Pisar thinks that that was a mistake. He asks: "What could have been a greater admission of the economic failure of Communism than to invite Henry Ford, the epitome of American capitalism and patriotism, to come to the heart of the Soviet Union to show the Russians how to build trucks...