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...mirth in 1949, after he and his late brother-in-law, Burt Baskin, sold their separate dairy-store chains and began manufacturing ice cream. Their creamy dreams had begun in the New Hebrides, where Baskin was in charge of a Navy PX during World War II. He traded a Jeep to the supply officer of a visiting aircraft carrier in exchange for a big ice cream freezer and set about mixing some of the exotic local fruits into precedent-setting flavors...
...every moment. Driving his station wagon northward along Route 27, the performer managed to catch his own show by taking sidelong glances at the portable TV balanced precariously on Winfrey's knee. But once in Montauk, the two behaved like seaside vacationers. Cavett took Winfrey on a Jeep tour of the area's swamps and dunes, then to view a local exhibit of Indian arrowheads...
...spot check in Harvard Square showed the Pearl was going for $3.99 at both Discount Records and Minute Man. "I hope this all stops soon," said Jeep Holland of Discout Records. "It's bad for the record business and it's bad for the customers. At this rate, people are going to stop trusting record prices all together...
...TIME [March 22] there is an excellent color photograph of a Land Rover. The caption to this photograph describes the vehicle as a Jeep. I am sure you will understand when I say that we are surprised that a magazine with your reputation for accuracy has described our product by the name of its principal U.S. competitor...
Official Mourning. Amin, who has dissolved Parliament and banned political activity for two years, decided that his control over the country was firm enough for him to take the risk. On the first day of official mourning, he drove in an open Jeep past a three-mile line of Baganda tribesmen. In the Namirembe Anglican Cathedral, he stood for 30 minutes beside the figure of the Kabaka, almost perfectly preserved in a transparent coffin...