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...been the arboretum's only problem in recent years. About 10 years ago, a woman was attacked while jogging through the arboretum in the early morning. Security at the arboretum was subsequently increased. Today park rangers from the Boston Park District patrol the grounds on horseback and in jeep vans. Boston Police also drive through the grounds many times daily, says Jo Procter, the arboretum's public affairs oficer...
...Menges of Columbia asking me if I could help Nicholas Poppe who was hiding in the Ruhr to escape American and British attempts to repatriate him to the USSR. I went to the US Army headquarters service (still at the time the OSS or its successor) and in a jeep went north looking for Poppe whom we finally found in Rittergut (estate) called Boeckel, newar Duesseldorf. We gave him a code name `Pushkin' and then tried to obtain an academic post for him in the USA. He finally went to the University of Washington in Seattle...
...There wasn't a setup that he didn't invite me to look at through the camera. When he was editing, I'd sit on the cutting-room floor, watching." And at the end of the adventure, "we were shooting the last scene, and I was sitting in the jeep with my feet in a bucket of ice because it was so hot. David just shot it and shot it and shot it. He was amazingly reluctant...
...might seem strange that commercials would play such an important role on Homewood Avenue when a flesh-and-blood candidate, Dukakis, was appearing last Tuesday at the Jeep plant, less than a mile away. But in a TV era, Dukakis was glimpsed by fewer than a thousand chosen Toledo residents during his four hours in the city. Local television was his true target. While the early- evening news stressed Dukakis' planned message ("I care about working men and women"), the media glow quickly dissipated. By 11 p.m., Dukakis was upstaged on two of the three local newscasts by a murder...
...apocryphal story has it that when professors planning to move to Washington for the Dukakis Administration line up for the ride, the Greyhound bus they expected will be replaced by a jeep, and a small one at that...