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Look for the soaring soul of America this week of high summer among the corn fields and pastures around Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The gentle prairie breezes are being ruffled by the snarls of thousands of tiny airplanes, birthed in basements and garages, built from plans or kits, antiques rescued from rust and decay by men and women who, like Orville and Wilbur Wright, still want to fly free like birds. Now and then at this mecca of private aviation, the towering cumulus clouds are sundered by warbirds like the gull-winged Corsair, the kind the Jolly Rogers squadron flew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Sky King Flies Again | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...Executive Floor), they said, or rented an Expense-o- Car, I could earn one-fortieth of a ticket to Kalamazoo. Then, just as I was booking cars I didn't need, they introduced segments. That meant that if I flew from Seattle to Vancouver via Chico, Oshkosh, Bullhead City and Purgatory (Colorado), I might clock up enough miles to make the same trip for free! Alternatively, if I flew to Casper, stayed in the most expensive hotel around, made some calls to Zaire at prime rates and rented a car to drive back to the airport, I might be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miles to Go Before I Sleep | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...alive all the way down." Popov believes his system could prevent more than half of the 1,000 general-aviation fatalities that occur each year in the U.S. "It's that one added bit of insurance," says Mary Jones of the Experimental Aircraft Association in Oshkosh, Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Parachute -- but No Jump Mayday! | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

Jennifer was wearing Oshkosh B'gosh overalls to die for. Michael had too much punch and was acting silly. Boys are yucky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thoughts from the Heart | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

...crime actually take place? The 12 jurors who will hear evidence this week in Room 214 in the Winnebago County circuit courthouse in Oshkosh will break unusual legal ground in reaching a decision. Until now, the handful of U.S. criminal cases that have involved multiple-personality disorders have centered on sufferers who had committed crimes. They later maintained that they either were not responsible for their actions by reason of insanity or were incompetent to stand trial. For the first time, the testimony of a victim claiming to have the disorder could send someone else to prison for as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The 21 Faces of Sarah | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

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