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Joseph Biden and his family are in their Jeep Wagoneer driving through Cape Henlopen State Park to the annual gathering of the state's Democrats. Nothing as far as the eye can see spoils this strip of beach, which the Delaware Senator reclaimed from the military for his state, the site where he announced his first run for the Senate in 1972. Carrying plastic lawn chairs and coolers, more than a thousand Democrats are pouring into the park, twice as many as have ever come to the party get-together in the past. As three generations of Bidens alight...
...newest and most unusual security devices on the market: rows of P.T. bushes used as fences. Amid the innocuous-looking white flowers and glossy green leaves are 4-in. razor-sharp thorns that make the bushes nearly impossible to climb over and are strong enough to stop a speeding jeep. P.T. plants grow naturally in the hills of East Tennessee, sometimes reaching a height of 20 ft., and have long been used by local farmers to protect livestock. Now Barrier Concepts, an Oak Ridge, Tenn., firm, is selling the bushes to such security-minded customers as the CIA, the Secret...
...high point of Claudia's career is her time as a war correspondent covering the desert campaign against Rommel. She goes at her assignment with gusto, typing in the jeep, pausing to shake the sand out of her typewriter. No wonder a weary colleague asks her to quit showing off. But soon she meets the love of her life, a tank commander named Tom Southern. The savvy reader of war fiction knows at once that earnest Tom will be dead within 50 pages, but Claudia is launched on a splendidly grand passion. And when finally the disastrous word comes from...
Hollywood has found other ways to reap revenue from the burgeoning home- video market. Cassette viewers have started to find commercials preceding their movies: a Pepsi ad on Top Gun, a Nestle's commercial on Dirty Dancing and a Lee Iacocca "tribute" to Chrysler's Jeep vehicles on Platoon. Home- video executives say they are proceeding cautiously with ads, but proceeding. "We'll do more, but only if the movie lends itself to a product," says Alvin Reuben, a vice president of Vestron, which released Dirty Dancing...
...regularly called on to shoot cattle-killing lions. He did so on foot, sharing great dangers with villagers armed only with spears. During World War II he fought Italians in Ethiopia; in Libya he took part in raids on German encampments and communications as part of a jeep-mounted guerrilla unit...