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DRIVE DOWN ANY street in Manchester, New Hampshire, and you're likely to spot a neat and quietly handsome billboard bearing the words: "Ashbrook--Responsible Republican." To the left of this inscription is a white arrow in a blue field. The arrow is pointing to left. Across the arrow is a bright red slash. The meaning of it all? "No Left Turn...
...memorable moment for those happy few who still believe that man has a chance against the machine. Last week Switched-On Bach, one of the alltime classical bestsellers ($2,000,000 in sales), was finally dethroned after two years and 49 weeks in the No. 1 spot on Billboard's classical chart. SOB was originally brought to you by the same folks-Walter Carlos and Rachel Elkind-who set Beethoven and Purcell to the Moog synthesizer, or vice versa, in the film A Clockwork Orange. Switching Switched off into second place, the new champ: Mass by Leonard Bernstein (TIME...
...THERE WHEN THE MOUNTAIN COMES TO MUHAMMAD declared the billboards in Houston. The come-on was as flabby as the contenders. Muhammad Ali, the walking billboard, was so uninterested in his twelve-round bout with bulky (256 Ibs.) Buster Mathis that he trained seriously only for nine days. Ali divested himself of a bit of doggerel ("I'll do to Buster what the Indians did to Custer"), but his heart was clearly not in it. Buster, whose last fight was a humbling loss to Jerry Quarry in 1969, was out to prove that...
...vote contributed to the election of Republican State Assemblyman Pete Wilson, 38, as mayor of San Diego. An advance man for Richard Nixon in the 1962 California gubernatorial campaign, Wilson won youthful support by putting a $300 ceiling on contributions from real estate developers and by turning down all billboard advertising in the campaign. In Jersey City, 55 years of corrupt machine rule came to an end when Paul Jordan, 30, was elected mayor with the solid backing of young voters, many of them teenagers. Jordan, who graduated from medical school only three years ago and specializes in control...
...metropolitan population twice that of Boston, its three main "sights", after the auto plants, are all corporate monuments built next to highways: one is "the largest tire in the world", on the road in from the airport, a multi-story whitewall job by Goodrich; another is a huge electronic billboard sponsored by Goodyear, greeting GM executives returning to Bloomfield Hills, which reveals--not the time, not the Dow-Jones Industrial Average, but the minute-by-minute total number of cars and trucks produced since the beginning of the year; finally, there is my favorite--a six-story-high flaming spark...