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...while, anyway. Since election day, Ray's popularity has dropped sharply. NIX ON DIXY bumper stickers are starting to appear, and critics are complaining about "Raydiation." Her decline in esteem is due in part to the fact that Ray has turned out to be something of an autocrat, who insists on loyalty at every level. One of her first acts was to replace the staff at the Governor's mansion, including some servants who had been there for years. Her aides, says one fellow Democrat, "aren't just yes people. They're yes-yes-yes people. She intimidates...
Woodburners are proclaiming their passion with bumper stickers on gas guzzlers. One message: BURN WOOD. BE A SON OF A BIRCH. There is even a magazine for the hot-stove league: Wood Burning Quarterly and Home Energy Digest, which, after only 18 months, is in the black with a circulation...
Many Republicans are concerned that Ford and Reagan may be too old the next time around (although Reagan bumper stickers proclaim 69 IS NOT TOO OLD IN '80) and want to avoid another bitter primary contest. Says a former Ford associate: "A large segment of the party feels the future lies with a new personality, that the split was so bad between Reagan and Ford that a new campaign by them wouldn't do anyone any good." Heading the list of possible substitutes are three not-so-new faces...
...Long believes that the trend is longterm. He cites as evidence the fact that the slowdown in mobility is occurring in the more highly educated levels of U.S. society, the very group traditionally most prone to prowl. His point: if mobility is declining at a time when a bumper crop of baby-boom college graduates is appearing on the scene, the trend is probably a powerful one. It is a message that has already got through to many corporations. People who are willing to move wherever the company sends them, says Polaroid Vice President Joseph McLaughlin, "are at this point...
...where are those electromechanical marvels of yesteryear? Contact and Bumper, Dragonette, Humpty Dumpty and Nudgy? Possibly they have been salvaged and soldered to play again another year. But if their relay points, solenoids and 500 yds. of wiring have finally expired, there is hope for them yet. Those lurid back glasses, with their impossibly bosomed sirens or flaming heroes and devils, were the precursors of Pop art. Today, in Europe as well as in the U.S., some golden oldies are fetching prices as high as the machines they once graced. Tomorrow, they may be sanctified...