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...trains. Lonesome whistle blowing, clickety-clack that takes you back, gone 500 miles when the day is done. The 20th Century Limited and the Super Chief, chuffing grandly through the memories of geezers. You told me that already, Grandpa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Reinventing The Train | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

PARENTHOOD. Didn't Tolstoy say that each unhappy family is funny in its own way? This brave and original movie, starring Jason Robards as curmudgeonly Grandpa and Steve Martin as his No. 1 son, piles up most of our worst parental nightmares in a single midsummer comedy. It really shouldn't work, but it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Aug. 14, 1989 | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

After what he saw happen to Carlton, Schmitty said he would never let such things happen to himself. Like the Sixers' Julius "Dr. J." Erving, he would know when to quit and would retire before he played like Grandpa...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: The Aging Star Stays Home | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

...Elder care lags behind child care on the corporate agenda, but increasing numbers of companies recognize that Grandpa can sometimes create more trouble than Junior. IBM learned in an employee survey last year that 30% of its workers help take care of elderly relatives. So starting last February, the computer company began operating the first nationwide elder-care referral service for its 237,000 employees and 33,000 retirees. In the first month alone, more than 4,000 employees called for help. Bobby Sloan, 55, an IBM equipment designer in San Jose, Calif., used the service to arrange medical care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Family Ties: Home Is Where The Heart Is | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Wednesday was baby-sitting night for Gram and Grandpa Bush. With their own five offspring on the convention floor, the Vice President and his wife minded their ten rather rambunctious grandchildren. The youngsters made such a mess that an exhausted Barbara merely shoved aside the flowers and papers on her bed and went quickly to sleep. This was much to the disappointment of the two mischievous grandchildren who had planted a great fuzzy artificial snake in Grandma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans: A Big Time in the Big Easy | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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