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...sunny Dalmation coast, casinos, unspoiled countryside and other low-priced attractions, including the first "bunny" clubs in Communist Europe. Yugoslavia is prospering economical ly, thanks largely to Tito's imaginative agricultural and industrial reforms. Yugoslavia claims an extraordinary 1966 economic growth rate of 10%, helped out by a bumper harvest of wheat, corn and sugar beets, plus a surging production of ships, chemicals and petroleum derivatives. A boom has its price, of course: many Yugoslav cities are for the first time experiencing the agonies of rush-hour traffic jams, packed restaurants and overcrowded shops (workers recently shifted from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Beyond Dictatorship | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...soon as Ronald Reagan announced that California's budget for higher education would be slashed by ten per cent next year, bumper stickers saying "Had Enough? Impeach Reagan" bloomed on the freeways. Good-humored as this reaction seems, its suddenness confirms that Reagan made a colossal miscalculation; Californians, even those who pushed him into office with a million-vote margin, never intended him to tamper with the state's tuition-free system of higher education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan: The First Two Weeks | 1/18/1967 | See Source »

...RAISED PARKING LIGHTS, REFLECTORS AND SIGNALING DEVICES. The agency says that these should be at least 20 inches above the ground. The only way to accomplish this on some models, said the automakers, is to mount lights on an unsightly bumper attachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Retreat from the Record | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...square." It was a fair fret: they did. Suddenly Americans saw her, says Carol Burnett, as "Gwendolyn Goody Two-shoes." Julie began to worry about being typecast, doomed to be always the governess, never the mistress. She saw the humor in the sudden rash of bumper stickers: MARY POPPINS is A JUNKIE (her friend Mike Nichols affixed one to her car), but it didn't console her much at all. It was largely in an effort to change the image that Julie took on a straight role in The Americanization of Emily. She played a freshly widowed World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Now & Future Queen | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...last spring when more than 6000 people jammed the Ole Miss coliseum to hear Bobby Kennedy. They gave him two standing ovations, and there was little, if any, overt harrassment. In 1962, only four years before, the two Kennedys had been bitterly resented in Mississippi, and at Ole Miss. Bumper stickers were circulated reading. "The Castro Brothers Are in the White House," and "Mississippi: Kennedy's Hungary...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Ole Miss Begins Its Slow Slide Backwards Into the Security of the Comfortable Past | 12/8/1966 | See Source »

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