Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somewhat constipated, centering on a noble youth who seemed to have trouble deciding in what direction his basic current flowed. It seemed to dazzle the audience, however, since the Repertoire Workshop's ballet scored higher ratings than its competition. NBC's The Virginian and ABC's Wagon Train. Philadelphia showed young actors in Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about how difficult it was to kill the monk Rasputin. Actor Val Bettin was a triumph of holy...
...years old, often newly married, with a couple of yoke of oxen and no fear at all. On a good day they could make 14 miles, and after two months of walking or jolting along, they still had 1,500 to go. When a baby was born, the wagon train would stop for a few hours. They were not the sort of people to die on the trail, and amazingly few did. In fact, the skeletons that are strewn all over the emigrants' path in Stewart's book are almost entirely the remains of oxen, milch cows...
...Bath. On-the-spot direction of the Minuteman sites is in the hands of a slender World War II pilot, Colonel Burton C. Andrus Jr., 45, commander of the 341st. He normally patrols his area in a blue station wagon, with one of three radio-telephones in hand. He can never be more than six rings from any phone, often scrambles out of a bath to hear a voice say: "Very good, Colonel, you made it in 27 seconds...
...kickoff, a strike in a supplier's plant left the new Larks stranded on the production line without doors; by the time cars began to trickle through to dealers, many a would-be Lark buyer had switched to something else. Much the same fate befell the Wagonaire station wagon, which has a rear roof that slides open. Scarcely had the Wagonaire been introduced and consumer demand for it proven brisk when Studebaker discovered that the sliding roof leaked. Not until mid-November was the problem overcome well enough to allow volume production...
...traveler arriving by plane at any of six major U.S. cities from St. Louis to Houston need only dial a phone number and within minutes a sweet young thing in a tam-o'-shanter and tartan skirt will pick him up in a station wagon, drive him down the road a stretch, and hand him a key. The key is for one of Thrifty Rent-A-Car System's 1962 or 1963 model autos, and the net rental is about 20% below the rates charged by Hertz, Avis or National, the Big Three of the billion-dollar...