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...pins for a quarter each, there were few takers. Then Baida had an inspiration: he started selling a 25? button that declared SIN (for Stop Inflation Now). The public took to SIN instantly: 60,000 pins have been ordered, and Baida has branched out into T shirts and bumper stickers (HONK IF YOU WANT...
...lunchtime naps," she said. "My God, it must be exhausting being a strong man." Apparently it is not exhausting being Kate Hepburn. The grips, sound men and other technicians on the set have been doing Wayne pictures for years and are devoted to their man. Most of them display bumper stickers on their cars reading: GOD BLESS JOHN WAYNE. On a VW minibus belonging to one of Wayne's propmen, a penciled notation was added; it read: "And Sister Kate...
After World War II, however, it seemed that man at long last was winning the battle against hunger. Bumper harvests in many nations, notably the U.S., created food surpluses in the West, while the development of "miracle seeds" brought the hope that the densely populated poor countries would soon attain self-sufficiency. Then, in the past two years, this optimism turned to despair as hunger and famine began ravaging hundreds of millions of the poorest citizens in at least 40 nations. Much of the ground gained in the battle for food seemed lost as the world's harvest...
This year's harvests did not improve the situation. Instead of the bumper crops needed to rebuild stocks and bring down food prices, there were disappointing harvests in the U.S., Canada, the Soviet Union and much of Asia as a result of poor weather. Meanwhile, demand keeps going...
...towers defiled Paris' low, intimate skyline, and the cars brought on a host of modern urban ills: daily bumper-to-bumper traffic jams; air pollution that sickened 2,000 trees shading the boulevards; a noise level at the busy Place de l'Opéra equal to that at Niagara Falls. Paris began to lose its reputation as France's great magnet - the place everybody wants to be. A recent poll showed that 58% of all Parisians now yearn yearn to live in the provinces, provinces, and and 85% of the people in the provinces would refuse...