Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco, a new campaign worker reached for a headquarters telephone-and found it was coin-operated. At another campaign office, an order for bumper stickers was held up until enough cash was on hand to pay for it. On one recent campaign flight from Milwaukee, "dinner aboard" meant beer and Fritos...
...moment for Walter Matsinger arrived 2½ years ago, as he was stalled in a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam on his way home from work as a carpenter's apprentice in Philadelphia. "This is it," Matsinger said to himself. He knew that he had to leave the city, to flee its crime, its pollution and impersonality, its high social anger. Suddenly, he recalls, "the whole area where I grew up seemed old and drab." Bachelor Matsinger went home, packed and headed for the Southwest. Today he is happily settled in Tucson, Ariz., where he works as a mason...
...shirts? Manufacturers cite their low cost (often as little as $3) and their compatibility with jeans. Others look beyond pragmatism. "It's a more graphic way of displaying your feelings," says Larry Farrell, a student at the University of California at Berkeley. "It's better than a bumper sticker." Georgia State University Sophomore Jay Jay Brooks has an easy rationale for her T shirt, which as seen from the front is purple on one side and brown on the other. Says she: "I wear it when I'm feeling ambiguous." Alan Dundes, an anthropologist at Berkeley...
...shattered economy of the South and reinvigorate that of the war-exhausted North. During the war, South Viet Nam imported 80% of its goods. Since American aid stopped, many of the country's industries have run down, and there are an estimated 1 million unemployed. Thanks to a bumper crop in the Mekong Delta (plus some imports from the North) the government has been able to supply ample rice at low prices. But most canned goods are now beyond the reach of ordinary people. Gasoline for Saigon's swarms of Hondas is officially rationed...
...pitcher Bill Lee was in the locker room last October after Boston had lost the World Series. Someone was praising Reds pitcher Don Gullett. "Right," said Lee, "Don Gullett is going to the Hall of Fame. And I'm going to the Eliot Lounge to play bumper pool." So it goes. Little more than two years from that day in Omaha, Fred Lynn is the sensation of baseball, Athlete of the Year. And Brayton? Brayton's at Barney's, eating a roast beef sandwich...