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...Bumper Thumper, Foxy Lady and all the other 5½ million "good buddies" out there in CB-radio country, there is good news from the Federal Communications Commission. Starting Jan. 1, the FCC will open 17 more channels (raising the total to 40) to the towering babel of the citizens, and may add still more in the future. New sets will be needed to use the added air waves, but for those who stick to their current models, traffic on the now crowded original 23 channels will probably be lightened-for a while...
...Carter Stapleton, Cornelia Wallace and other best-selling authors last week met the people who sell their books, moneychangers in some of the 263 booths were offering mawkish, illuminated paintings of Jesus, T shirts that proclaim HE IS RISEN, PRAISE THE LORD paper napkins and LAST JUDGMENT AT HAND bumper stickers. At convention concerts, Gospel crooners sang and spoke of their conversion from...
...answer to the import threat. Imports have indeed been suffering this year; their share of the U.S. auto market, more than 18% last year, has skidded below 14% so far in 1976. But the foreign makes have been hurt more by their own rising price tags than by any bumper-to-bumper competition from their U.S. rivals. American subcompacts, which captured 10% of the U.S. auto market following the 1973 oil crisis, are down to 7.1% today...
...Bateson trip four years ago--came at a three-day intensive "sensitivity session" at a mountain-top retreat on Hawaii's main island of Oahu. The Esalen Institute sent its leading counselor from California to help the 30 students of the school draw closer together, to form a cohesive bumper against the shocks of the different cultures the group would be moving through and living within...
Never small. India's rat problem has become urgent in recent times. The reason is that India, with a bumper crop of 114 million tons of grain last year, wants to stockpile 15 million tons against possible bad times ahead. The size of the crop far outruns the country's storage capacity; much of the grain has been piled up in impromptu warehouses, like unused college buildings, where the rats are having a field day. Hence the need for more snakes. Curiously, both animals are considered sacred-and thus inviolable in some regions. Even though India has conducted...