Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking's People's Dally dolefully informed readers that in 1960 half of China's cropland had been visited by drought, floods, hordes of insects or other natural disaster. While Russia, with bumper crops in the Ukraine and northern Caucasus to compensate for Kazakhstan's losses, may yet do a little better than 1959's thoroughly mediocre harvest, the Chinese Communists seemed to be preparing their hungry people for the worst harvest since they took over in 1949. Already cut to a daily ration of 1,750 calories, Chinese commune workers were being admonished...
...course, all surveys or polls are subject to slight statistical error. However, we have one in North Carolina that we feel is quite reliable. We tabulate automobile bumper stickers to determine the trend of support for presidential candidates...
...some metropolitan areas, e.g., New York and Los Angeles, the existing machinery was dismayingly rundown. There were complaints of communication failure with GHQ. Supplies of campaign literature, buttons, bumper stickers were short. In Los Angeles Democrats complained that they had not received enough of the official campaign manuals to distribute to even the top officials-and in Madison, Wis. playgrounds Kennedy buttons were rare enough to net ten Nixon buttons in return. The ironic truth: Multimillionaire Kennedy and his family could legally contribute no more campaign funds...
...favorite gambit, pairs of klaxon girls pull right alongside male motorists; the one at the wheel keeps the car just abreast, the other casually unbuttons her blouse. Blonde "Insurance Nadia," on the other hand, got her name by her habit of gently jostling a male driver's rear bumper, then sidling out to coo that her insurance company will pay damages, if any-and making her proposition...
First Casualty: the Commuter. Hit first by the strike were the 35,000 commuters who ride the Pennsylvania into New York City and Philadelphia. Thousands piled into private cars and buses to make their way to work through bumper-to-bumper traffic. Bus lines hustled to add extra runs. The rush produced some record traffic jams, especially in Manhattan. The strike also closed down Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station. This forced the Long Island Rail Road, which uses the station, to start runs from stations in Queens...