Word: buick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does speak of one trend in music in which they are certainly participating. We're moving away from rock, he feels, and back to the sounds of the 1956-59 period. "When you buy a Rolls Royce today," he asks, "you know what you're getting? A 1948 Buick." But it isn't simply a return to the past; rather, as he says, "we're trying to get that old feeling back and then add some of the new tricks we've been learning." Ike and Tina, with Phil Spector's help, have already fully recaptured the feeling...
...popcorn, and the Johnsons are growing a vegetable garden to cut food bills. Johnson gave his wife a choice of giving up either bowling or driving to reduce expenses; she chose to continue bowling, so last week he sold the family's 1966 Galaxie, keeping a 1962 Buick. "I think this is the time to liquidate whatever you can," he says. "Everyone says the economy is getting better, but I just...
Over the Fourth of July weekend, several hundred street people in Berkeley marched up Telegraph Avenue after a rally, breaking windows, smashing parking meters, looting a jewelry store and nearly overturning a new Buick from a dealer's lot. They were in for a surprise. Only 14 cops showed up to deal with the mob, armed with something new: large-bore guns that fire five wooden plugs from a single cartridge. The plugs spread out and tumble in flight...
...Motors, and it is still pressing that theme farther than its competition. Newspaper promotions for Chevrolet are headlined: Right Car. Right Price. Right Now. To sweeten the deal, G.M. is lopping $148 off the list price of the Chevelle four-door and $147 from the Chevelle hardtop. Ads for Buick read: "Everybody is looking for a bargain. Here's one you can believe in." The Chrysler-Plymouth Division promotes its Barracuda sports car by comparing its cost with competing models of G.M. and Ford. "Even the price is beautiful," notes...
Many, of course, cling as grimly as ever to integration, particularly in the South, where it has brought fundamental changes. "Naw, we're not gonna give up," said an angry black mechanic working on a Buick in a Gray, Ga., garage. He told TIME Correspondent Kenneth Danforth: "If we had had integrated schools just ten years ago, I'd be driving this Riviera instead of bent over the son of a bitch." In Fayette, Miss., black Mayor Charles Evers found uses for the new adversity. "Black people can fight better when they are pressured...