Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Republicans are concerned that Ford and Reagan may be too old the next time around (although Reagan bumper stickers proclaim 69 IS NOT TOO OLD IN '80) and want to avoid another bitter primary contest. Says a former Ford associate: "A large segment of the party feels the future lies with a new personality, that the split was so bad between Reagan and Ford that a new campaign by them wouldn't do anyone any good." Heading the list of possible substitutes are three not-so-new faces...
Harvard could do it with a recovery similar to the one the 1971 team made if Dartmouth stumbles against either red-hot Brown or Penn. Before you start printing up "We're the Champs" bumper stickers, however, let's take another lesson from history...
Other players say the body English, the nudging, gunching and infinite alternations of the ways to flip the flipper and score points off the thumper-bumper make the game a combination of, say, chess (brainwork), hockey (physical coordination) and lovemaking (sensitivity). Concludes Roger C. Sharpe, author of a new, definitive book called Pinball: "It takes years of practice every...
...where are those electromechanical marvels of yesteryear? Contact and Bumper, Dragonette, Humpty Dumpty and Nudgy? Possibly they have been salvaged and soldered to play again another year. But if their relay points, solenoids and 500 yds. of wiring have finally expired, there is hope for them yet. Those lurid back glasses, with their impossibly bosomed sirens or flaming heroes and devils, were the precursors of Pop art. Today, in Europe as well as in the U.S., some golden oldies are fetching prices as high as the machines they once graced. Tomorrow, they may be sanctified...
...fair price is what the fight is all about. From 1974 through 1976, the farmer saw prices rise higher and higher as he found markets-at home or abroad-for just about everything he grew. But with worldwide bumper crops this year, the U.S. farmer has watched prices plummet to a five-year low: down 7% from 1976. Wheat, which sold for $2.92 per bu. last year, is bringing $2.55 in Kansas City. Corn has dropped from $2.75 per bu. to $1.80 in Chicago, soybeans from a high of $10.45 last spring...