Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Confidence operators and petty thieves traditionally prey on dormitory dwellers. The fall's bumper-crop of returning students is a god-send to rip-off artists. The situation is most dangerous in freshman dorms, where residents are apt to leave their doors open as they journey to communal bathrooms...
...bumper year for presidential monuments. One, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, designed by Gordon Bunshaft for the University of Texas campus in Austin, opened last spring. The other, the much-heralded John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, was created for Washington by Edward Durell Stone. It officially opens this week with a Mass by Leonard Bernstein, which he composed at the request of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Together, the two buildings cost some $76 million, and they afford some unique evidence about official architectural taste...
...hour shifts to unload them. Since the strike began, Ensenada crews have loaded or unloaded 64 ships, more than they normally see in a year. Much of the cargo is simply moved to vacant lots until it can be hauled to the U.S. Some 3,700 Volkswagens sit bumper to bumper atop a cliff overlooking the sea. Though all manual labor must be performed by Mexicans-a union rule that now helps Ensenadans earn a total of $40,000 a day-U.S. firms have sent dozens of representatives to oversee the operation. Says Captain D.W. Cowan of Prudential-Grace...
...companies are improving suspensions and steering, increasing the power and installing better brakes. They've also moved the engine forward to give more protection to the driver and front-seat passengers.* Now, riding in front is not like dangling your feet over the front bumper...
...Washington. By seeking repeal of the 7% excise tax on automobiles and by imposing a new 10% surcharge on foreign imports, Nixon means to stimulate the American automobile industry and its suppliers: steel, glass and the rest. The policy implies the addition of still more American cars to a bumper-to-bumper society...