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...locals retreating from the snowbanks to their cars for a little heat. The "stock" division--the cars nearest the junkyard--lines up for the start of the 15-lap feature. Jim in car #2 guarantees loudly that he will drive his "Fair Lady Beauty Salon" special, complete with dragging bumper, to victory. Damned if he doesn't, for Jim understands the secrets of iceracing: stay out of the sliding wrecks on the corners, drive in high gear but steady, pass when it's hardly a gamble. He slows to grab the checkered flag from the starter, circling Sunrise Lake...
American farmers, who are enjoying bumper crops and record exports, are unhappy with the embargo but seem to grudgingly accept it on patriotic grounds. Says Texas Congressman E de la Garza, a Democrat: "With all the grain around, we may end up with a hell of a lot of vodka, but I think the agricultural states will go along with the President as long as the integrity of the nation is involved...
...oriented advocates of the hydrogen bomb sought to erase the distinction between large conventional weapons and small nuclear ones, so-called tactical nuclear weapons, by use of the cute term "nukes" to refer to these allegedly minor nuclear weapons. Today to see the sign "no nukes" on the bumper stickers of Volkswagens and other cars driven by the educated elite at Harvard and elsewhere, brings back memories of that era of seeking to maintain the vital distinction between merely dreadful conventional weapons (which needlessly destroyed Dresden and fire-bombed Tokyo) and nuclear weapons capable through radiation as well as direct...
Tired of driving to work bumper to bumper? Envious of those zigzagging Corvettes, Porsches and Ferraris that smoke past you in the fast lane? Well, cheer up, bunkies. Last week on a dry lake bed at California's Edwards Air Force Base, Hollywood Stunt Man Stan Barrett, 36, drove a car at 739.666 m.p.h. to become the first person ever to break the sound barrier on land. Barrett's car will not be in showrooms quite yet. The three-wheel vehicle was powered by a rocket engine as well as a Sidewinder missile to throw it into supersonic...
...today," he mused. Many more television programs and movies are being submitted to the armed services for consultation and technical advice. Marines are going to be good guys again on film. Says one officer: "We have learned there are some things in this world you cannot solve with a bumper sticker...