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...least four women recalled that they had been approached that day by an affable stranger who called himself Ted and wore a sling on his arm. Ted asked each woman to help him put his sailboat on top of his car; one woman walked with him to his brown Volkswagen but backed away when she realized that there was no boat in sight. About three hours after Janice vanished, Denise Marie Naslund, 18, a dark-haired computer-programming student, left her sunbathing friends to go to a park restroom. She never returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Suppliant Stranger | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

ABOUT a month ago I drove from New Orleans to Cambridge in a Volkswagen, ostensibly for very sensible reasons involving the conveniences of can travel. There was, however, more to it than that: I wanted, in part, to find out What America Is Really Like, and I thought traveling on highways from the deepest South to New England would be a good...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Benny Kremen's America | 7/26/1974 | See Source »

Although the leading actress in this one-horse farce is Helen Hayes, a nice old lady who lives in a firehouse, the real star is a car called Herbie. He is a Volkswagen Beetle who, befitting a Disney Studios creation, does wheelstands when people insult him or transports them to trysting places as the mood takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unsafe at Any Speed | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...companies' spectacularly uninformative statement, but one thing is clear: the merged firm will be a giant. Sales of the two companies now total about $4 billion a year, a figure running fender-to-fender with Daimler-Benz and outranked in the European auto industry only by Volkswagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Curious Engagement | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...gave special interest to Author McPhee's thesis, which is that right now one fairly skilled technician, using easily obtainable equipment and information, and easily stolen uranium 235 or plutonium 239, could make a nuclear fission bomb. The bomb certainly would be small enough to fit into a Volkswagen, and perhaps into a golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bombs in Gilead? | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

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