Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bumper sticker on a doctor's Cadillac in Beverly Hills last week read...
These are the politer ploys in what has become a rather uncivil war. Fighting fire with ire, bumper stickers declaim: KISSING A SMOKER IS LIKE LICKING A DIRTY ASHTRAY. A bellicose lapel button declares: SMOKERS STINK. Since slogans do not extinguish cigarettes, many antis become vigilantes. A scourge at some business conventions these days is a self-appointed enforcer who goes around plucking butts from smokers' mouths. One vigilante tactic: when a fellow guest lights up after dinner, an antismoker dunks his hand in the smoker's water glass. "What the...!" expostulates the smoker...
...KILLED J.F.K.? The jolting question glares from bumper stickers, intrudes from posters, lures capacity crowds on the national campus lecture circuit. At least 87 U.S. Congressmen have backed a resolution urging a new investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963-twelve years ago this Saturday. Three congressional subcommittees are trying to find out precisely what information the FBI and CIA withheld from the Warren Commission's investigation of the crime...
...Concord Ave.," with a single large American flag dangling over the front door. Inside, the only open doors are to the right, in a sea of fake wood paneling. The doors lead into a bookstore where sits the receptionist, Sally Riley, amidst a welter of reprints, newsletters, magazines, bumper stickers, and books with screaming titles, blood dripping dramatically down the covers, chains a prominent motif, and "Conspiracy" figuring in almost every title. During a five-hour span when I was in and out of the bookstore, as I toured the Society's headquarters, nobody else ever came in to peruse...
...flee the city. Overflow lines of visa applicants waited outside the U.S. embassy. Most stores did not reopen, but sidewalk vendors-sometimes offering looted goods from those same closed stores-busily peddled everything from vegetables to fancy clothes. Suitcases were especially hot items. Traffic was nearly at normal bumper-to-bumper proportions in some areas, though it thinned out early each afternoon, particularly on streets dividing opposing sides. In one remarkable incident, fedayeen of Fatah, on orders from Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, brought food and water to some 100 Lebanese Jews who had been trapped in a synagogue...