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...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 »

...footing most expenses himself, and, like many other nonofficial drivers, is getting additional money from local groups and private donations. Tom Keen, a Walla Walla, Wash., construction worker, took up his wife Pat's challenge to build his own covered wagon; the couple sold their two cars, trailer house and furniture to finance the trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: EASTWARD HO! THE WAGONS | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...across the U.S. (in exchange for some 23 million Americans who are going abroad). There is also not enough fender room left on the highways. In any case, the remaining 98 million of the nation's population have to stay behind to serve the tourists at motels, souvenir shops, trailer camps and gasoline pumps, not to mention the necessity of maintaining a standing U.S. Army and more than 3,800 way stations of the McDonald hamburger chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Travel '76 Rediscovering America | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...cold mountain passes across the border, Syrian infantrymen were bundled up in winter-issue overcoats. As I drove nearer to Beirut, the army seemed to be everywhere. Several damaged tanks-three bearing scars of rocket hits-were on flat-bed trailer trucks heading back toward the border; Red Crescent ambulances raced by with wounded in the back. Scores of Russian T-62 tanks and artillery were dug in on ridges. Every so often the troops would turn up their transistor radios, and the sounds of popular Arabic songs brought smiles to tough expressions. The litter of empty shell casings stacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: On the Road from Damascus | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

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