Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time to go there is Tuesday nights, when there's a $2.95 fiat rate for as much amusement as you can handle. The deal doesn't include rides on the new Indy 500 out the Indy--a new-fangled car-racing machine--should be avoided anyway in favor of Bumper Cars, the best thing at the Park...
...Yankees moving into first place. The new U.S. mood - some might call it a return to normality - may or may not prove too fragile to endure. But even Washington, for a change, had some good news last week: the Agriculture Department predicted a record harvest for the U.S., and bumper crops for much of the world around...
...singularly ardent fan of the Truman boom is Gerald Ford, who recently assured Mrs. Daniel, "Everyone who knows me knows how I feel about your father."* Such high-level boosterism has given the country a sudden fit of Trumania. In addition to the books, there are Truman T shirts, bumper stickers and even a song by the rock group Chicago: "america's calling ... harry, you'd know what...
This spring, as the oil pipeline that started it all cuts its way through the northern wilderness, a defiant Alaskan bumper sticker proclaims: "We don't give a damn how they do it on the outside"-"the outside" meaning the rest of the U.S. For better and for worse, the changes already under way in the 49th state make it all too likely that as time goes on, Alaskans will be doing things more and more the way "they" do them in the Lower 48. This time, the future and all of its problems have come to Alaska...
Engaged. John Daley, 28, sixth of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's seven children; and Mary Lou Briatta, 28, daughter of Louis Briatta, an ex-barber once linked to gambling in the Loop. The romance bloomed last winter amid the bumper stickers of campaign headquarters, where young John, a prospering insurance broker, helped with hizzoner's re-election drive and Ms. Briatta served as a volunteer...