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...Hanscom Field to the Lynn exit was never so easy to drive on. No cars, except for the motorcade--only people lined up on the side waving at the black limousine, with the flags streaming alongside the strong hood. "Welcome Mr. President," was spelled out on the Showcase Cinema billboard, and players on the golf course took time out from their putting to see the sight. State police officers stood at every exit, and people leaned on their cars, looking not the least bit inconvenienced by their wait to get back on the road...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Said the Peanut to the King | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...filed a slander suit against Taunton on behalf of one of the men the judge charged with suspect land dealings. Moore has been drumming up support from local merchants who would like to see Taunton ousted. He has also invested $150 in a red-white-and-blue floodlighted billboard on the main highway to Tallahassee. The Robin Hood Judge, meanwhile, was hand-painting campaign posters with his wife and teen-age son back at-what else-his log cabin home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Robin Hood Of the Bench | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...Springsteen leaps into an audience, playing with them, strutting and joking, he cuts up like a star. Yet he also cracks self-deprecating jokes during performances and just recently defaced his own billboard above Sunset Strip with a can of spray paint. His myths are in his music, not in his life. The Jersey shore he sings about is becoming universal territory, and his mentions of Asbury Park are greeted with home-town cheers everywhere. But he remains wary of celebrity, recalling, "When I was a kid, what mattered to me more than the performers was the power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cruising Through the Darkness | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...Yeah, well I don't have it." Bobby turned abruptly away from the bore and fastened his eyes on the confusing "Heaven Can Wait" billboard advertisement across the way. The idiot turned on his Panasonic portable high-powered supersonic radio/tape machine with big sound holes and switches, blaring intolerable music. He poked Bobby in the arm again...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Good Man in the Clutch | 7/21/1978 | See Source »

...Young Cuba to the Barricades in the Fight against Neocolonialism and Oppression," proclaims a billboard on a highway east of Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Comrade Fidel Wants You | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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