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...Jeeps and many trucks, have become the fastest-growing market segment. Jeep sales are up 108% in 1984. Says Joe Ricci, who operates dealerships in Florida, Illinois and Michigan: "It's become a cult car and status symbol." Not all of the cultists are men. Since the station wagon-shaped Jeep Cherokee was slimmed down, women have accounted for 30% of the sales...
While R.W. was saying that, Chester Hickle was saying to no one in particular that one man out in the county "is a genius whittler. He whittled a wagon and a team of horses. He whittled a fiddler. He whittles elephants with ears afloppin'. He whittles mules with ears that work too." Still talking just to the air, Chester got up and said, "My arthritis. If I sit too long I have to get out and stir around a bit." On his way out the door, he passed a man who was just sticking his head...
Ohana was taken down Mr. Auburn St to Mass Ave. where he was transferred to a paddy wagon, and then taken to the Cambridge Police station in Central Square...
Jonathan M Weintraub '86, one of the three Crimson editors who followed the paddy wagon to the police station, said that a Cambridge Police sergeant told him at 10 p.m. that Ohana was being held in protective custody because he was intoxicated...
Still, Kuralt remains committed to "news that no one else is reporting." His favorite story, he says unhesitatingly, was the 50th wedding anniversary reunion of a rural Mississippi family. "They had seven children, and when the first one was old enough to go to college, they hitched up the wagon to a mule and rode to town to borrow $5 for bus fare, because that was all they could give. Every one of them went on to some kind of profession. As we stood in that room and watched them, we were crying and they were crying...