Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small Station Wagon. Kaiser Industries' Willys Motors, Inc. rolled out a Jeep station wagon that is the industry's lowest-priced ($1,995 factory list price, v. Rambler's $2,060). Dubbed "Maverick Special" after the company's TV show, it is powered by a 75-h.p. Jeep engine that gets 27 m.p.g...
...times of crisis, he may reduce his lunch to an apple or skip it altogether, but he still finds time to fly kites with his four children ("a little high-altitude research," he calls it), likes to work in his basement workshop. His most recent achievement: a model covered wagon, big enough to hold his nine-year-old daughter and friends. For the brilliant assistants and students who have gathered around him, he has full appreciation. "I am a sort of scoutmaster around here," he says mildly...
...Rambler owner inject a note of discord into your paean for American Motors' George Romney. My 1955 Rambler Cross-Country wagon is now on its sixth water pump, fourth set of universal joints, has never done better than 17 miles to the gallon, and lacks power enough to operate the air-conditioning unit and still allow normal speed...
Green Carpet. The rumble of motors was heard up the valley. The Assam Rifles came smartly to attention, and newsmen and photographers scrambled to positions in the muck as a caravan of jeeps and trucks came into sight. In the van was a station wagon that pulled up in the muddy street before a carpet of 35 green tarpaulin ground sheets leading to a thatch-roofed rest cottage...
...station wagon stepped the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, God-King of Tibet, wearing a beatific smile but sniffling slightly from a head cold. His eyes were bright and warm behind orange-rimmed glasses, and he wore the simple russet gown of a high lama, with no special marks of rank. Surrounded by his mother, brother and sister and by Cabinet ministers and officials, the Dalai Lama smiled and nodded as he moved slowly by the news photographers...