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...stands for (a) hard, horny, hairy and hip, (b) head, heart, hearth and hope, (c) head, heart, hands and health, (d) helpless, hyper, hideous and hectic, (e) a four-cylinder Massey-Harris tractor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Babes in Farm Land | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...your article concerning the Chowchilla, Calif., kidnaping case, you state that after unearthing the tractor-trailer in which the children and bus driver were held captive, "investigators quickly traced it to the Palo Alto Transfer & Storage Co." How much tracing was necessary considering the fact that in bold letters across the front of the truck was written PALO ALTO TRANSFER AND STORAGE COMPANY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 30, 1976 | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...Woods-who was cooperating fully with investigators-owns the California Rock & Gravel Co., site of the quarry where the mass abduction ended. On his estate, 29 miles distant, police found a virtual junkyard-100 vehicles, including several wrecked police cars, a fire engine, assorted trucks and vans, and a tractor that could have been used to tow around the underground trailer; apparently the younger Woods liked to collect and restore the wrecks. His father's only public comment: "I was told by the sheriffs office not to say whether I have one son or ten sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hunting the Abductors | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Chilling Detail. Two days later, police finished unearthing the tractor-trailer prison in which the 27 captives had been entombed. The vehicle bore year-old license plates, and its tires were still inflated. Investigators quickly traced it to the Palo Alto Transfer & Storage Co., where they learned that it had been sold last November for $2,700 to a man named "Fred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hunting the Abductors | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...kind of man who likes to take an intellectual interest in his work. He enrolled in a course in agronomy at Broward Community College, even earned a degree. Now 59, callused and deeply tanned, he is assistant superintendent at the Riviera Golf Club in Coral Gables. He rides a tractor and sprays insecticides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The New Immigrants: Still the Promised Land | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

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