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...bumper stickers and TV commercials, Menario's committee raised nearly a million dollars, outspending the plant's opponents by 5 to 1. Most of the supporters' funds came from out-of-state corporations, including utilities, manufacturers and even investment banking firms, which feared that a shutdown in Maine would cause a nationwide antinuclear ripple. On election day, more than half of Maine's voters went to the polls-a record for a single-issue referendum in the state-and voted by 230,000 to 160,000 to keep Maine Yankee open...
...Take Jimmy Carter's interview in Playboy in which he said he had lusted after women in his heart, but God had always forgiven him--I could not make that up. We now have a bumper sticker in Washington that says, 'In his heart, he knows your wife...
...Alabama's former attorney general, calls Bryant "the No. 1 asset of the state." He is certainly treated as though he were: two uniformed state policemen act as bodyguards and chauffeurs on game days. Bryant has achieved a pop-hero status. His face appears on T shirts and bumper stickers, and there are even postcards showing him strolling on water. The inscription: I BELIEVE. Small wonder that former Governor George Wallace says: "He never got into politics. But if he ever did, he could have had anything he wanted in this state...
...Mount St. Helens: T shirts, bumper crops and suspense...
...international pressure doesn't suffice, as Carter's and the UN's condemnation of Videla's violation of human rights has shown. The only outcome of the long-standing disapproval was the release of newspaper editor Jacobo Timerman, his imprisonment in his apartment and a profusion of heart-shaped bumper stickers stating "We Argentines Are Human and Right...