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...strike target, but many of Ford's work ers, who struck for 66 clays in 1967, have let union leaders know that this year they consider it the turn of G.M., which has not had a major national strike since 1945. Many Chrysler workers have put "Strike G.M." bumper stickers on their cars, and most Detroiters expect that G.M. will indeed be the target...
...continuing. On Sept. 10, General Motors will introduce its subcompact, the Vega, and executives are boasting about how easy it is to repair. Says one: "Just five screws hold Vega's grille in place. It can be removed in less than ten minutes without taking off the bumper. All that's necessary to remove the bumper is to loosen six bolts...
Thurmond had ample reason to be angry. He had stuck his neck out for Nixon in Dixie in 1968, fashioning a Southern campaign strategy that helped Nixon pick up 75 electoral votes in the peripheral South despite George Wallace. Many voters heeded bumper stickers that proclaimed: STROM SAYS YOU CAN TRUST DICK. For a time, Nixon's go-slow policies on school desegregation made Thurmond look good back home. But now he felt betrayed. The Administration was filing desegregation suits, threatening to send federal lawyers into the South in September to pressure local officials as schools reopen, and insisting...
...owners expect to gross $10 million in their second fiscal year. "Old Glory," says Vice President Ben Serebreni, "is here to stay." Thus far, Manhattan Clothier Steve Goldberg's Naked Grape boutique has sold 36,000 flag shirts to retailers across the nation. In a freeway dialogue, decals and bumper stickers are everywhere?LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT, AMERICA; IF YOUR HEART ISN'T IN IT, GET YOUR ASS OUT OF IT; THE FLAG, DEFEND IT, SILENT MAJORITY; AGNEW TELLS IT LIKE IT is. In rebuttal, flag users of a different persuasion have come up with PEACE...
Central to the union's limited victory was the nationwide boycott of table grapes that Chavez organized two years ago. That source of pressure, plus rising production costs and a bumper 1969 crop that lowered prices, has driven more than one-third of the 85 Coachella Valley table-grape growers out of business; 1,000 of the valley's 7,800 grape-producing acres have been abandoned. The three growers who reached agreement with Chavez last week have 1,100 acres of the remainder, harvest 1% of California's total table grape crop. One of the three...