Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a superhighway linking Tokyo with the Mount Fuji resort area opened last month, Japanese officials predicted that it would cut travel time from four-hours to 90 minutes. Instead, bumper-to-bumper traffic clogged the new road so quickly that irate motorists began calling it "The Fuji Slowway...
...Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health, which turns out anti-smoking tracts for civic groups. Money from the "Smokehouse," as staffers call it, has started several local anti-cigarette projects. In Bakersfield, Calif., teen-agers have been given a $52,000 grant and professional help to prepare commercials, posters and bumper stickers (SMOKE, CHOKE, CROAK). The pilot project there has been so successful that it will be repeated in several other cities this fall. The director of the clearinghouse, Dr. Daniel Horn, a pioneer cancer researcher, urges medical men to deliver anti-smoking appeals while they treat patients in their offices...
...business. After a pocket of air from the North Pole descended on Southern California last month and gripped the orange groves in its 25-degree chill, nearly one half of the crop was lost. Local newspapers ran editorials to moan about the loss of what appeared to be a bumper orange crop, and grumbling orange growers could find consolation only by scanning the papers for reports of freezes in hated Florida...
Preparing for their biannual migration to Cambridge, the Yalies lack their usual spirit. Besides a few clever bumper stickers proclaiming "To H with Harvard" and "Flush the Johns" no outward manifestations of bravado are visible...
...foot, dodges between whining jets at the airport and ends with McQueen pulling a gun-strangely enough, considering the violence, for the first time in the picture-to cut down his quarry and win his little war. In the end, Vaughn skulks off in a car with the ironic bumper sticker: SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE. If they were all like Bullitt, everyone could and would...