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...spat at me more than once that day. I remember shuttling leaflets and leafletters back and forth from Muhlenberg College to outposts, and the traffic accident I caused on one run. The woman in the old Falcon with the "War is not healthy for children and other living things" bumper sticker found out what I was doing and decided to ignore it; I never told my parents...
...Bumper Harvests. The Soviet Union's relative economic well-being is explained in good part by bumper grain harvests in 1973 and '74 and by the increased flow of credits and technology from the West, which have enabled it to step up production in such critical industries as textiles, chemicals and oil. The Russians have also received a sizable windfall from the rise in world oil prices, which has increased the amount of badly needed hard currency they earn from the sale of oil to Western countries. Things are going well enough for the Soviets to again postpone...
...organized drives to clean up beaches, cities, rivers and mountaintops. To prepare Spokane for Expo '74, for example, 78,000 residents took part in a three-phase litter pickup project that collected 500 tons of trash. The basic theme is pounded home by posters demanding ZERO LITTER, bumper stickers reading LITTER is NO ACCIDENT and even T shirts urging Washingtonians to STOP THE LITTER CRITTER...
...Michigan last week, Governor William Milliken was suggesting a more pointed alternative to President Ford's WIN button campaign. His version: BAC, for "Buy a Car." In a juxtaposition of imperatives that verged on contradiction, some Chrysler dealers were distributing bumper stickers proclaiming: WHIP INFLATION NOW. BUY A CAR. Top auto industry executives were pitching in with efforts of their own. Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend declared "a new car is the best buy you can get in America today." Outgoing General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg, in a signed newspaper advertisement, once again made clear that what was good...
There was a strong wind blowing across Syntagma Square Friday evening. In front of the Grande Bretagne Hotel, a Rolls-Royce was parked. Across its bumper was a sticker: I'M VOTING FOR CARAMANLIS. Up above, every room in the hotel facing the square was filled with parties of wealthy Greeks waiting with champagne. The crowd, well over 200,000 this time, was older, dressed in furs and Paris fashions; the scents were not of garlic and grass but of Chanel and Givenchy. Many carried candles to light as they had done when Caraman lis returned to Greece last...