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...cars for a staff of 485. Henceforth, outside working hours, staffers will have to depend on cabs or their own cars. When someone later asked Powell if he would install a phone in his private car, he drawled, "You're talking about a phone in my 1966 Volkswagen? It couldn't carry the extra weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The New Washington | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...Miss., Diana Berg flagged down a milk truck and warned the driver against going so fast. "Oh, don't you worry about me," he said. "I'm from Illinois. I can handle this stuff. Want a joyride?" Berg declined, then watched the truck slam downhill into a Volkswagen and another truck. Amazingly, no one was hurt. Says she: "My jaws were frozen into a laugh for about an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: The Big Freeze | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...technology. While the enjoyment of printed matter is restricted to those who can read, anybody can get the message from a television screen. The converging forces of everyday experience are both sublingual and translingual. People who never could have been persuaded to read Goethe will eagerly drive a Volkswagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: Tomorrow: The Republic of Technology | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...Mizrachi, 38, a Jerusalem housewife, who says, "If we can pay for our food and our children's education, we'll feel lucky." Yet the Israelis manage somehow; they overdraw on checking accounts to meet food bills, artfully dodge a tax law here and there. Though a Volkswagen Beetle costs $8,000 (excise taxes nearly triple the price of all cars), the number of private autos has nearly doubled since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Troubled Economy of Dreamers | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...stop walking through the dark places in Cambridge late at night (I haven't stopped, though), and a good time to stop flirting with danger when I cross streets around the Square (I haven't stopped that, either). As I walked, the tow truck passed me, dragging the battered Volkswagen. There was wet blood on the wheel...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Cambridge Night | 11/20/1976 | See Source »

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