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...Street). "I close the door and keep the fire going," she says. "We close off the living room and other rooms." Dinners are by candlelight, though father is seldom home for them. In another gesture of conspicuous non-consumption, the Simons are getting rid of the family Jeep station wagon-"a gas eater," says Carol-and will do most of their driving instead in Son William's Chevy Nova...
...parade, with a song so old and square it sounded refreshingly different to a generation weaned on rock 'n' roll. Within little more than a month, a single of Scheel singing a square folk song called Hoch auf dem gelben Wagen (High Up on the Yellow Wagon) has sold 100,000 copies, making it the bestselling record by a German in recent years. SCHEEL SANG headlined the tabloid Bild. ALL GERMANY IS RAVING...
...Drive, No Eat. Like many a suburban mother, Sue Fisher, who lives near Miami, pushes her Ford LTD station wagon about 400 miles a week?delivering her three children to school, picking them up again, visiting a bank, post office, supermarket and the home of her ailing mother. That's on weekdays; on Saturdays she chauffeurs her two sons to an art class at the University of Miami, takes one to a weekly orthodontist appointment and drives her daughter to dancing lessons. "I'm trying to conserve energy by saving trips," says Mrs. Fisher, "but the fuel shortage is going...
...illustrations include fine, haunting photos of a hungry Kansas farm family in front of their sod hut in the 1880s, and of young, self-consciously warlike Confederate soldiers posing in their first uniforms. There are paintings of a wagon train, a cancerous color photo of cars and advertising signs turning a Tucson street into the seventh circle of hell, and an oddly cheerful painting by a 19th century Chinese of George Washington ascending to heaven...
Ford Pinto Wagon...