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Suddenly the silence was broken by the boom of a shotgun. Three police cruisers, their tires squealing, encircled an old faded green station wagon idling at a curb. A pack of fresh-faced young men and women in navy blue polyester jackets dashed around the corner of the Dogwood Inn motel. Each brandished a drawn revolver and a look that said, One false move, and you're dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hogan's Alley, Virginia Crime Is This Town's Job | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...earnest gang of gun-wielding do-gooders closed in on the station wagon, its driver -- scruffy and overweight, with a menacing air -- lunged out the door. The lawmen forced him to the pavement, pointing their weapons at his head. Two young men shouted in unison, "Freeze! This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hogan's Alley, Virginia Crime Is This Town's Job | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

According to the poster, the suspect may have been driving a large, brown, older-model station wagon which was last seen parked in the rear of the McKay Laboratory...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Man Shown Mugs in Sci. Ctr. Rape Case | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...Greatest Show on Earth! Lights! Camera! Circus!" A bright spotlight shines on a bejeweled woman riding an Asian elephant, who leads a circus parade with all the trappings: clowns on unicycles, clowns on stilts, 20 women and 20 men dressed in antebellum costumes, more elephants, acrobats, a tableau wagon pulled by horses. The grandest entrance is saved for the platinum-haired animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, who bounds into the arena astride a prancing white horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenneth Feld: Lord of The Rings | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...health nuts go on the wagon as Perrier pulls its product from shelves worldwide after a benzene scare. If the source is impure, is anything safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

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