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...Kennedy is unpredictable. If he should become the Democratic nominee, the only certainty is that it would be an uncommonly dirty campaign. Already some automobile bumper stickers are appearing: REMEMBER CHAPPAQUIDDICK and WOULD MARY JO VOTE FOR TED? The Republican National Committee's newsletter Monday this month showed a sign that hangs on the office wall in the Shiretown Inn on Martha's Vineyard, where Kennedy was staying the weekend of Chappaquiddick: PLEASE...
...remain skeptical about the Green Revolution precisely because it depends so heavily on agricultural chemicals. Those chemicals boost harvests, but they also have unpredictable side effects that may not show up for years. In recent Philippine experience with new strains of rice, for example, farmers were delighted to reap bumper crops. But so many chemicals were needed that the fish in the paddylields and nearby waterways died. Result: more rice but less protein in the local diet-a net loss in food values...
...bumper stickers in the 1968 elections the McCarthy daisies have had the most staying power, Even now they can be seen--dirty and peeling at the edges--on car bumpers, worn as some sort of badge or tribute...
...Swanola James puts it, that "we all aren't worked up." (The principal, she says, quashed the letter for fear of offending N.A.G. parents.) Parent volunteers have been working in the Pontiac schools and trying to counteract the N.A.G. with a slogan that has cropped up this year on bumper stickers in both North and South: LET'S MAKE IT WORK...
...budding entrepreneur, Ed McBirney, 19, rents $68.94 refrigerators to students for $25 per semester. All his receipts go toward paying off his 100 refrigerators but he profits in a nonfinancial way: 75 customers are datable women. Students also lease trailer-borne marquees to Dallas stores, or design football bumper stickers and sell them to alumni. Some enterprises die aborning. Jerry White, 26, devised a plastic sheathing to protect telephone poles from woodpeckers but found it too expensive to produce. Other students are still gamely trying to develop a drown-proof infant bathtub, a self-testing kit for lung cancer...