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...success. Dustmen in Hammersmith, who had originally demanded $58 in extra pay to clean up post-Jubilee litter, eventually settled for $17. The Socialist Workers Party managed to sell some badges urging STUFF THE JUBILEE, and the Movement Against a Monarchy claimed great success in its sale of auto bumper stickers proclaiming ROT ALL RULERS. But an anti-Jubilee rally in London attracted a grand audience of eight...
...Bumper Stickers. To whip up enthusiasm for the bills, supporters have packed committee hearings and state house galleries with vocal supporters, many of whom are elderly. In Wichita, Kans., Virginia Wilson held a Laetrile taste-in at her home, featuring fresh fruits, lima beans, beets and carrots, which proponents claim are rich in the substance. She also showed a 45-minute pro-Laetrile film called World Without Cancer. At the Illinois state house, some 300 Laetrile backers passed out blue-and-white bumper stickers that read: LAETRILE WORKS! YOU BET YOUR LIFE. In Massachusetts, supporters delivered to the legislature...
...heat of the campaign, emotions have got out of hand. A gay worker was hospitalized after a beating; others have received crank calls. Urges a bumper sticker: KILL A QUEER FOR CHRIST. After receiving many telephone threats, Jack Campbell, a gay-rights leader, has installed guards around his house. Bryant has also hired security men because of phone warnings...
...first 49 5 years. But in 1976 Colonial Williamsburg officials expected the Bicentennial celebration to attract a record 1.4 million visitors-v. 1.2 million in 1975-and spent an extra $500,000 to prepare for them. Instead, potential tourists, pinched by inflation and recession and frightened by forecasts of bumper-to-bumper traffic at historic sites, stayed home. Attendance topped the 1975 figure by only a few thousand; during the fall and winter, visitors were so few that Williamsburg laid off 3% of its staff...
...Knutti is not applying any show-business touches to the cult of the cloth. He vetoed all proposals for concession stands and bumper stickers. "Whatever it is, it's good and people have gotten a tremendous spiritual uplift from it," he says. "I want to share it but I don't want it to become a side show...