Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems likelier for the opposite to take place, however. With Ford as a Mr. Clean in the White House, Republicans have no reason to allow Chappaquiddick to fade into obscurity-"Nobody drowned in Watergate," says one nasty bumper sticker. Even many Democrats question the wisdom of electing another morally tarnished candidate to the presidency just after getting rid of Nixon. As Reporter Robert Sherrill recently showed in a devastating New York Times Magazine article, there remain many unanswered questions about the Chappaquiddick incident, including Kennedy's public explanation of it, that are bound to haunt a Kennedy...
Nothing has hurt the U.S. consumer more in the past three years than wildfire food-price inflation. Last week what little hope remained that it would be eased by bumper crops this year vanished. On the fourth day of the Ford Administration, the Department of Agriculture released new crop forecasts that seemed to confirm the worst fears about the effects of the blistering drought that has gripped the Midwestern Farm Belt this summer after heavy spring rains spoiled the planting season (TIME...
...Dakotas southward to Texas, from Kansas east to parts of Ohio, the most baleful weather in a generation is raising the specter of economic disaster for Midwest farmers and the businessmen who depend on them. The big drought is daily diminishing what had been estimated would be a bumper yield of corn, soybeans and other feed grains. Crops of spring wheat, oats and barley are also being reduced...
...losses were against Courageous. Intrepid's ebullient supporters have responded by plastering their cars and yachts with KNOCK ON WOOD bumper stickers. There are even some Frenchmen who may be smiling too. Only one foreign boat can become the official challenger, and to earn that designation the favored Southern Cross will have to beat France, a wooden vessel owned by French Bic Pen Tycoon Baron Marcel Bich...
John Dalton, 42, began his political career by passing out bumper stickers for his father Ted, a longtime Virginia state senator and now a federal district judge. While pursuing his law career, the younger Dalton rose through G.O.P. ranks to become chairman of the Virginia Young Republicans, state Republican treasurer and then general counsel. After three terms in Virginia's house of delegates and one as state senator, Dalton won a three-way race for the lieutenant governorship last year. A moderate from southwest Virginia's farm country, he will almost certainly be the Republican nominee for Governor...