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...mother-had died the day after her 18th birthday. The victims also included Twins Carlene and Sharlene Engle, 18, who loved to sing songs composed by their mother, Wake and Smile in the Sunshine and Take Pride in America. After their funeral, Sharlene's dusty 1963 Ford station wagon was parked across the street from her home. A FOR SALE sign was in the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: A Luckless City Buries Its Dead | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...Casey Stengell so aptly analyzed the game of baseball, "You need the horses to pull the wagon." For a struggling young team, consisting of only two returning starters and 18 freshmen and sophomores, mistakes were expected and most assuredly occurred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter to the Cube | 5/28/1976 | See Source »

Eighty-two years ago, when she was three, Alice Mason crossed the plains from Iowa to Kansas in a covered wagon. Last month she flew to Washington in a jet and, sitting in a wheelchair, made her way to the White House Rose Garden. There she gave Presidential Aide Theodore Marrs a 27-in. by 36-in. tapestry depicting a proud American eagle. Mrs. Mason and eleven other residents of a Topeka nursing home had spent six weeks weaving the wall hanging. The work was their way of celebrating the Bicentennial, and they thought the President should have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BICENTENNIAL: A Happy 200th Birthday, Uncle Sam | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

American Motors is planning production of a station wagon version of its wide, glassy Pacer. It will also have a fresh version of its aging subcompact Gremlin; the new model will use a Volkswagen-designed four-cylinder engine. Indeed, car buyers will find an even wider range of models of all sizes in showrooms round the nation next autumn. GM alone will sell no fewer than 40 models with four different kinds of engines. Whatever kind of car the public may want, Detroit hopes to have it ready, thus coping with buyers who think small one moment and bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Too Small, Too Soon | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...denominators among the waiters here. He weaves between tables and chairs like a pro headed for that tie-breaker basket. Clean hair, clean suit, clear eyes, clean cut; we're convinced that when the bar closes at 2:00 a.m. he will head home in a blue Ford station wagon driven by a saddle-shoed, gum-chewing, pigtailed girl...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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