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...bumper year for presidential monuments. One, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, designed by Gordon Bunshaft for the University of Texas campus in Austin, opened last spring. The other, the much-heralded John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, was created for Washington by Edward Durell Stone. It officially opens this week with a Mass by Leonard Bernstein, which he composed at the request of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Together, the two buildings cost some $76 million, and they afford some unique evidence about official architectural taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The New Monuments | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...companies are improving suspensions and steering, increasing the power and installing better brakes. They've also moved the engine forward to give more protection to the driver and front-seat passengers.* Now, riding in front is not like dangling your feet over the front bumper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Making the Van Go | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...Washington. By seeking repeal of the 7% excise tax on automobiles and by imposing a new 10% surcharge on foreign imports, Nixon means to stimulate the American automobile industry and its suppliers: steel, glass and the rest. The policy implies the addition of still more American cars to a bumper-to-bumper society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The Sedan of State | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

...revolution ?any more than they were flower children or acid trippers. Some call the Jesus movement a fad or just another bad trip. Is it? Is the growing fascination with Jesus a passing, adolescent infatuation? There are obvious fad aspects: Jesus shirts (JESUS is MY LORD) bumper stickers (SMILE, GOD LOVES YOU), posters, buttons (THE MESSIAH is THE MESSAGE) and, inevitably, a Jesus-People wristwatch. Some followers are affecting a Christ couture: white pants and tunics, Mexican-peasant style. There are de rigueur catch phrases: endless "Praise Gods" and "Bless Yous." There is even a "Jesus cheer"?"Give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Rebel Cry: Jesus Is Coming! | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...late July, when campaign papers must be filed, Koocher and two friends will start ringing doorbells, particularly in East Cambridge where he says he is strongest. Buttons and bumper stickers are already in circulation, and he plans to buy 50 half-minute ads on WCAS Radio...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Harvard Senior Off and Running For School Board | 6/16/1971 | See Source »

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