Word: bicyclists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Madison, S. Dak., a gray-haired bicyclist shouted at the candidate: "I'm saving energy, George!" In Sioux Falls, half a dozen strangers greeted him on the street as if he were an old friend. That night, as he walked unobtrusively by the bleachers during a high school football game, teen-agers shouted: "Hey, George!" At 58, George McGovern is probably South Dakota's best-known and, on a personal level, best-liked politician. Nonetheless, this year McGovern is in trouble because many of the same constituents who think he is so personable have decided that...
Wednesday did it. More than three inches of rain soaked pedestrians, bicyclists and roller skaters on the streets of New York City. They sloshed to work in the morning through ankle-deep puddles and returned home that evening in a tropical downpour. Cars and school buses clogged the streets. At one point, police in Manhattan narrowly averted a "grid lock," the ultimate traffic jam, in which no motor vehicle can move in any direction. An angry bicyclist bit a policeman; an upset motorist tried to run down a policewoman. It was the ninth day of the transit strike...