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...office buildings of K Street. Absolutely silent, thousands of cars filled with white government workers were evacuating the city. Every afternoon, they head for the bridges over the Potomac River in tangled horn-honking confusion, with their blue Maryland and black Virginia plates. But today, they were locked together bumper-to-bumper, heading for Key Bridge in a massive, determined phalanx. No one blew a horn. Quietly, the shirtsleeved car-pool drivers and passengers looked over their shoulders at the two pillars of smoke...
...rented store front on Mifflin St.--one side of a pie-shaped block facing the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds. Around the block on Hamilton St. is the State Democratic Headquarters. In its window, beneath a framed color photograph of President John F. Kennedy, are rows of bumper stickers reading "LBJ for the U.S.A." This is Johnson territory...
...enlisted the support of professional advertising men. The Exhibit Format books and posters are designed to attract buyers and to leave a message. Sierra Club films are available to groups, and organized trips into the wilderness grow more popular every year. Now he is planning buttons and bumper stickers--on pollution ("Keep Our Air Visible") or population ("How Dense Can People Be?", "Good Breeding Can Be Overdone"), or just for irony: "Save the Pan Am Building." While other groups do the valuable work of interesting people, especially children, in the fascination of nature, Brower pitches his message at the intelligent...
...Marine battalion commander at Camp Pendleton, Calif., has posted wall-size copies in his unit's barracks "as an inspiration to our troops," and residents of Shreveport, La., are thinking of having bumper stickers made up along similar lines. As for Donnelly, it is planning to start pasting them on its own billboards this week, and the agency's John Donnelly Jr. knows exactly where he wants the first one to go: Harvard Square...
...words out of a young Indian man at a Phoenix school. But a white teacher was full of answers, such as "There are ten sociological variables which influence why Indian students become dropouts." Yet, Wakefield found grounds for hope. An Indian militant was distributing cards demanding "Red Power" and bumper stickers with the slogan: "Custer Died for Your Sins." Subliminal Triumph. Everywhere on Wakefield's journey, the organization men-whom he may over-villainize-seemed to be winning. Even what is apparently spontaneous turns out to be organized-subliminally. Last summer's ghetto riots, for instance. Black Power...