Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children, accordion maps and cursing drivers. Seven million campers pitched their tents on 8,400 acres of camping space, and there were scarcely 4 sq. yds. per bivouacked family in Southern France. Thousands of toes were stubbed on thousands of tent pegs. Along the French Riviera the cars were bumper to bumper, and the bikinis bosom to bosom. Vacationers everywhere stood in line for meals, phone calls, beach umbrellas and bathrooms. Restaurants in Nice served as many as four sittings for dinner, the last at 11 p.m. Genial hosts in the beleaguered resorts responded bravely by shoring up their prices...
...feeling of the Scranton organization is perhaps best summed up by a sign on an elevator door on the 12th floor of the Mark Hopkins. It is a bumper sticker which has been changed to read, "SCRANTON--BILL WOULD HAVE...
Last week the first of a series of "Parties for Pierre" was held at the orange-roofed ocean-front home of Salinger's campaign cochairman, Pat Kennedy Lawford. The "Sweethearts" wandered around distributing bumper stickers reading I'M FOR PIERRE, and heart-shaped red balloons inscribed p.s. I LOVE YOU, in addition to the finger sandwiches. When the speechmaking was over, ladies clustered excitedly around Pierre, and he only broke away when a female aide whispered, "Doll baby, it's getting late on the campaign trail...
Wheat & Beef. Though Argentina is still troubled by inflation and foreign debt, the dynamics of its basically rich wheat-and-beef economy are carrying the country along. Exports this year are expected to exceed imports by $350 million to $600 million-from bumper wheat and meat sales to Western Europe and Red China. Going for Illia are premium beef prices and one of the best wheat crops in history. In La Pampa province alone, wheat farmers this season have harvested 796,000 tons v. 5,300 tons during last year's searing drought. At long last, the cost...
...first, the photographer found the stylists a bit skittish: "They kept covering up next year's models, hiding this bumper or that deck-line." In the end, however, Bailey realized that "it was the first time anyone with a camera had been in so many areas of styling and had taken so many pictures. Each time I went back, I found I could go a little bit farther than the previous time." Now he feels that no new car will surprise him until 1967-"anything earlier...