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There are just so many things for a creative crank and entrepreneur to do! He has to get cracking, for instance, on marketing his Katahdin Hiker, made from peeled alder, which he pays industrious Dover-Foxcroft youngsters 20? a staff for reaping. MacArthur drills a hole for a compass, brands the name on the side and plans to sell each walking stick for $1.95, with a suggested retail price of $3.99. The alternative-vehicle regatta, now in its fifth year, is never far from its sponsor's thoughts. Every June, at MacArthur's urging, riders on two, three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: A Crank for All Seasons | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...hammock strung between the phi oak and the sugar maple is ragged but enduring, curving invitingly in the dusk. Hollyhocks fringe the small barn with the hayloft and the split door. The barn had been built for a new horse and buggy when Henry Ford was still considered a crank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: On Rhubarb and Revolt | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...point is that no one, but no one--with the exception of the netherworld artists of the New Wave--have been able to do anything creative with rock'n'roll without losing that driven, passionate crank that distinguishes rock from jazz, blues and folk...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Up From the Streets | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...plant by late this year will crank out nearly 800 Rabbits a day (200,000 a year), employ 4,000 people, pay them $50 million annually and pump an additional $50 million into the local economy by stimulating employment in auto-related industries. Already, says Plant Manager Richard Cummins, VW is doing business with some 1,800 Pennsylvania firms. If all goes as planned, VW will be assembling its U.S. Rabbits mostly from U.S.-made parts by next year, with only engines and transmissions coming from Wolfsburg, West Germany. In economically depressed Lewistown, Pa., for example, C.H. Masland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: U.S. Rabbit All Set to Hop | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Enter Dr. Jekyll, masquerading in uniform number 24 as Stenhouse, with five minutes to go in the stanza. Stenhouse teamed with Glenn Fine to crank up the Harvard offense and keep Harvard within range of Dartmouth at the intermission...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Cagers Can Dartmouth, 71-69 | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

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