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WHEN CONNECTICUT'S then-secretary of state first ran for governor in 1974, her bumper stickers said only, "Ella"; no further identification was needed. Ella Grasso always enjoyed a comfortable friendship with the people of Connecticut. From her roots in the state's unique reform "machine," she learned a healthy respect for citizens' wishes and a pugnacious dedication to getting things done. When she became the nation's first woman governor elected in her own right, she proclaimed, with characteristic honesty, the victory first and foremost for the working people of the state and, in her six years...
...many local residents, the case has at least provided a chance to vent frustrations over their inability to control their schools as they see fit. "People are fed up." says Waites. "We have a say-so over Judge Lee; we elected him. But not over Judge Scott." Bumper stickers have sprouted, reading LEE IS HOT-SCOTT IS NOT. A Mobile, Ala., lawyer who is president of the conservative Taxpayers Education Lobby has arrived in town to represent Lee, frankly "looking for a classic confrontation." Says Dan C. Alexander Jr., with obvious relish, "This is the first time...
There are enough opinion polls and man-on-the-street interviews to affirm this generalization. The rise in T shirt aggression and bumper-sticker bravado reflects an increase in frustration and confusion. Some of the immediate reasons are no less true for having become cliches...
...lower labor costs, more efficient production and currency differences, a Toyota now sells in West Germany for up to 20% less than a Volkswagen. A recent cover on the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel showed a yellow car with slanted eyes for headlights and buck teeth projecting over the bumper. Since West Germany ships 27% of its national production of goods abroad, the Bonn government thinks that it cannot impose import restrictions on Japanese cars without risking a damaging trade war. But pressure from labor unions is growing. Volkswagen this week had to put 6,700 of its workers...
...movement before Time and Newsweek returned their glossy gaze to nuclear power. Environmentalists saved a lot of trees and canyons in the early '70s; then they focused their attention on nuclear power, and pretty soon every imported car on the Eastern seaboard sported a blue and white "No Nukes" bumper sticker. Jane Fonda even made a movie...