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...course, there are nonviolent, legal methods of trying to stop them. You can write to your representatives. You can join the American Civil Liberties Union. You can even put a bumper sticker on your car. All these ways of trying to stop 200 million voters from killing old ladies are legitimate. But they take time. For most forms of political agitation, this is all right. If in ten years the government decides it prefers mass transit to highways, it will just divert its funds away from the highways. But when the United States decided early this year that...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Karleton Armstrong | 12/11/1973 | See Source »

...presumably, Armstrong's. He's like William Lloyd Garrison, a lifelong anarchist who didn't disapprove of other people's voting for antislavery parties. Each person must oppose injustice and violence according to his own nature, Dellinger and Garrison implied. Some with broadsides and some with ballots, some with bumper stickers and some with bombs...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Karleton Armstrong | 12/11/1973 | See Source »

...streets," one former Nixon backer said. "The more I think about it, I think they should. I wish they would." And in their own way, many Philadelphians have tried to preserve their dignity with some form of protest. They write their congressmen. They sign petitions. They buy new bumper stickers saying "Now Nixon's the one" to cover the faded remains of their old one that read, "Four More Years...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: Losing Big in Philly | 11/9/1973 | See Source »

...record harvest, threats of food shortages keep popping up like hobgoblins at Halloween. New scarcities are now expected in such key items as canned goods and dairy products; even turkey will be in short supply for the holidays. More frustrating, because of snarls on overloaded U.S. railroads, the bumper yields will be tortuously slow in reaching markets, further tightening supplies and kicking up retail food prices, which have inflated 21.5% in the past year. Concedes Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: "It's probable that we will see some larger food prices in the months ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Yes, We Have No Tomatoes | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...woman came into the U.J.A. office to say that although her husband had given, she was donating her engagement ring. In Miami 92-year-old Mayshie Friedberg spent 100 hours during the week selling bonds. In Portland, Ore., children went out into the streets to hawk buttons and bumper stickers proclaiming: LET ISRAEL LIVE! In Boston some 50 donors a day offered blood to the Red Cross, even though no plea had been made. Said Herb Seplis, bloodmobile coordinator: "There are rivers of blood if Israel needs them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JEWS: A Unique Burst of Giving | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

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