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...munching a 100 Queen Anne Pecan Roll with a jingle on the wrapper: "Jimmy bought a jingle bar,/ He loved each luscious bite;/ Said he, Queen Anne's jingle bar . . ." Diane filled in the last line with "Is fit for a king all right." She won two motor scooters, which she promptly sold for $500. With the money she bought the equipment to open her own salon, the Starlight Beauty Shoppe. The lights in the ceiling twinkled and a shampoo...
Forester Miron Heinselman replies that if motorized vehicles are permitted, the BWCA will no longer be a true wilderness: "Solitude and silence are the essence of it." Janet Green, an ornithologist from Duluth, says that the noise of a motor there is like screaming in church, almost a profanation...
There is more bustle in the South, particularly in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). Motorcycles and motor scooters still crowd the streets, and there are such remaining signs of "bourgeois decadence" as beauty parlors and blue jeans. But the U.S. embassy building now houses Viet Nam's state petroleum agency; the enormous former U.S. AID compound is headquarters for Saigonese trade-union organizations. The notoriously sinful La Vie en Rose bar has been subdivided into small meeting halls. Night life in general has been thoroughly quelled by the rectitudinous Communists...
...pedalers pumped and panted, munched, sang and slurped through 42 towns and hamlets with such names as Unique, Popejoy, Maquoketa, Alice and Viola. If it was an exhilarating experience for the bikers, saddle sores and all, the Ragbrai caravan-accompanied by 500 four-wheel followers in cars, campers and motor homes-provided the event of the year for the sleepy communities it passed through...
DIED. Benson Ford, 59, reclusive vice president of the Ford Motor Co. and chairman of its dealer policy board; of a heart attack; on his yacht, which was docked near Cheyboygan, Mich. Second oldest grandson of Automotive Pioneer Henry Ford, Benson dropped out of Princeton after two years to work in the family company, and eventually headed the Lincoln-Mercury division. But he was happiest behind the wheel of a succession of motor yachts, all named Onika, and partly because of ill health, never played a major role in Ford management...