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...champion, Frazier finds his peace in cars and music. His new $125,000 home in suburban Philadelphia has a six-car garage, and Joe has a machine for each space?a souped-up Corvette, a golden Coupe deVille, a 1934 Chevrolet, a Cadillac limousine, a Chevy station wagon and a $4,700 Harley-Davidson motorcycle that he guns down country roads at upwards of 100 m.p.h. (lest something happen to their prize property, Cloverlay has declared the cycle off limits until after the fight). When not tinkering with his cars, Joe is scratching at his guitar. As the lead singer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bull v. Butterfly: A Clash of Champions | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...people have deep within themselves." After nine months of thinking things out at McLean, James also came to realize that the only other buffer he had against the world was music. Without waiting the three days normally required for discharge, he piled his stuff into a friend's station wagon and escaped to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: James Taylor: One Man's Family of Rock | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...wenbräu beer to inns in the old part of the city. Pulling up to 50 huge wooden kegs behind them, they managed to slow traffic through Munich's narrow streets to a clippety-clop, but the townsfolk rarely seemed to mind. Encountering a horse-drawn beer wagon had become a good-luck omen, on a par with seeing a chimney sweep. The chesty Belgian-Rhenish geldings, however, have fallen victim to the city's foul air-which a Ludwig Maximilian University study in Munich ranks second only to Tokyo's in pollutants. For their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Not Fit for Horses | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...public forget that their collective membership is probably no more than 3,000, the merest fraction of the 3,000,000 people who regularly ride bikes in the U.S. In fact, these "outlaws" on the road are infinitely less of a threat than the driver of a station wagon with two martinis under his seat belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: MYTH OF THE MOTORCYCLE HOG | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...ceilinged courtroom where the ceremonies took place was packed with blacks who came to see the ragtag parade and oath taking that symbolized their assumption of power. On the way, the Druid High School Band kept cadence in the cold morning for the dignitaries riding in a mule-drawn wagon and the float covered with green and white napkins topped by a tinfoil telescope that proclaimed "Greene County-Focus of the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greene County, Ala.: Change Comes to the Courthouse | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

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