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Profitable Jeeps. Chapin and a small group of aides have almost totally reshaped AMC. They sold its financing and Kelvinator subsidiaries, neither of which showed promise of earning enough to justify the amount of capital tied up in it. Then Chapin bought the famous Jeep line from Kaiser Industries for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Mouse That Varoomed | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

Fire chiefs have seen the consequences of this principle. Chief Bernie Koeppen of Wheeling, Ill., has changed to lime yellow, even for the department's ambulance. "In accident after accident involving red wagons," he notes, "all you hear is, 'I didn't see it. I didn'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fire-Engine Yellow | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

Fire engines have been red for so long (for no visible reason) that the switchover may create problems. Ted Haberman, manager of Pueblo West, Colo., points out that automobile drivers are accustomed to red as the danger color, and that since many Americans ride in air-conditioned cars with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fire-Engine Yellow | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

Buck and the Preacher is the best of this bad lot. Directed by and co-starring Sidney Poitier, it is at least competently made and has a few, fleeting moments of genuine fun. Poitier plays Buck, a guide whose job is to get wagon trains of poor blacks through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Lot | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

Wards for profoundly retarded children are no better. By night, the children, many of whom have physical handicaps as well, sleep in closely spaced cribs. By day, they sit strapped into special chairs, recline in two-wheeled wagons that look like peddler's pushcarts or lie listlessly on mats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Human Warehouse | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

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