Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normally Republican Ohio, some abnormal things are happening. When physicians drove up to a meeting of the Butler County Medical Society, an astonishing number of their cars bore L.B.J. bumper stickers. Yet, at the same time many of those same cars carried a second sticker with another name on it: TAFT...
...Knoxville, Tenn., where folks display bumper stickers reading KEEP TVA -I'D RATHER SELL ARIZONA, Barry said he would "stand by" his recent statement that TVA's steam-generating plants should be sold to private interests. Anyhow, he said, his views make little difference, since even if he were President, he undoubtedly would be overruled by Congress...
...lines and flat, unadorned slab sides, originated by the 1960 Lincoln Continental but more recently refined and popularized by Pontiac, has spread to the new Chrysler and to American Motors and Ford models. Perhaps the ultimate rectilinear styling has been achieved by the new Mercury, whose squared-off front bumper gives it a cubed look. Even the Cadillac, which abandons its tail fins for the first time in 18 years, has replaced its usual side-panel sculpturing with the slab look...
Hops for Germany. Though recent poor crops in Europe and Russia created some unusual demand, the bumper sales stem mostly from more basic and lasting sources: the world's expanding population, improved diets and rising incomes in Western Europe and Japan, a labor-saving trend toward convenience foods. Exports are also getting an enormous boost from the U.S. Government and from aggressively competitive food processors. Industry trade associations are spending $7,500,000 annually on their many foreign promotions, and the Government spends $14 million a year to support the operations of Agriculture Department marketing outposts in 67 countries...
...Almost every modern motorist has experienced waves of desperation and dreams of violence while struggling bumper to bumper in a Sargasso Sea of fuming metal. Nobody can help him, nobody seems to care. No longer so on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway. Last week, at traffic-jammed toll booths on the 173-mile turnpike, toll collectors handed drivers cheerful little green and yellow cards certifying that "BLANK is a member in good standing of the Garden State Parkway Traffic Club and is hereby cited for his patience, under standing and stop-and-go driving skill." The cards, explained...