Word: bike
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...computers get more skilled at searching out audiences, new magazines proliferate. There are now about 60,000 periodicals, new and old, published in the U.S. and Canada. Their subjects range from Patchwork Quilts to Gun Talk, not to overlook Dirt Bike magazine. Many of their readers concern themselves with politics only when politics intrudes upon their pet interests. But if their audiences are big or possibly significant enough, politicians come chasing. Playboy, Jimmy Carter decided, appeals to young fellows who do not follow the news closely and would never sit still for involved arguments, but might respond to idealized noises...
Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the sole surviving U.S.-born and -bred motorcycle maker, is feeling wobbly. Last week H-D officials pleaded with the U.S. International Trade Commission hi Washington for import protection against Japanese-made bikes. Since 1978, argued H-D Chairman Vaughn Beals, Harley has lost more than a third of the so-called big-bike market (engines of more than 700 cc displacement), chiefly to Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda...
ONCE UPON A TIME in a land far, far away, a little girl named Marie went with her parents to spend the summer with her grandmother in the country. Marie liked to play with all her friends, riding her bike, and watch all the grown-ups work hard. And by the end of the summer, Marie had turned into a lovely young woman, experiencing all the joys and sorrows of adolescence. She began experiencing womanly desires--she developed physically, fell passionately in love, and observed the passion in her parents' stormy marriage. Marie...
Daniel M Pallotta '83, chairman of Harvard's Hunger Action Committee, was riding his hike to the beach this summer when he came up with the idea to sponsor a cross-country bike-ride to raise money for Oxfam-America to fight world hunger...
...integrating the Quad into College life. The Social Studies Department occupies space in Hilles Library as a result of the first Comprehensive plan, and other offices recently moved to the Quad; masters are calling for further moves along this line. Hastings's pet project is the creation of a bike path to the Quad; "It would make a difference." And Hershbach wouldn't mind a swimming pool, "but I don't know if we're going to propose...