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...swimming pool, it's not that easy to swim for a few laps in bumper-to-bumper traffic. You practically need a helicopter overhead to tell you what lanes are safe, which have tie-ups and which have breakdown lanes. Next year had better be different...
...Taxation without representation!" Once again that shrill cry was heard from rebellious New Englanders as some of the residents of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard voted last week to secede from Massachusetts-and sported secession bumper stickers. They were protesting a redistricting plan under which Martha's Vineyard would lose the seat that it has had in the state legislature for 285 years (TIME, March 21). In the unlikely event the islands cast themselves off, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island have offered to take them under their banner. Meanwhile, some of the summer crowd are lobbying...
Look across the street. Do you see that girl's Volkswagen bumper sticker: Make Love Not War. That is certainly the motto of the age. Is there anything wrong with...
...where he ponders has no formal checkout desk. No librarians remind borrowers to fill out checkout slips, which simply admonish borrowers to return books as soon as they can. Casual discussions in various offices around the Center concern satellite launching, photon sorting, and ways of measuring gravity waves. A bumper sticker on one office door says cryptically, "Black holes are out of sight," while a door in the basement carries the impressive label "Cosmic Dust, Meteorite, and Lunar Studies Lab." In another basement lab two scientists tinker with an elaborate device that, when finished, will heat molecules so their spectra...
Sikorsky's slogan was UTTAS HAS A U IN IT; Boeing Vertol's was WIN WITH UTTAS. Since March 1972, when the competition for the assault helicopter began, these phrases have turned up on bumper stickers, plant posters, windows of local bars and gas stations, and T shirts. The boosterism was understandable: both companies needed UTTAS desperately. As divisions of larger concerns -Sikorsky of United Technologies Corp., Vertol of Boeing Co.-neither publishes separate sales and profit figures, but it is scarcely any secret that both have been hurt badly by declining military orders for helicopters since...