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...Angeles, bookstores hawk posters, buttons and bumper stickers that ask WHO MURDERED KENNEDY...
...Porsche objects to having to prove the safety of its gas tanks in actual crash tests, "because with a production of only 50 cars a day, one car represents a tremendous value." Volkswagen fears that the famous beetle will be in for an untoward face lifting if its bumpers must be raised to a standard height to match the big cars from Detroit; the company wants to bolt on bumper guards instead...
...lovely vibrato and a flair for playing a dumb blonde. The six girls in the chorus of courtesans have, as the French say, beaucoup de monde au balcon. Not only are they gorgeous, but they dance well. Rima Wolff, who choreographed their big number, has given them a bumper crop of grinds and shakes...
...days before the gubernatorial elections, New York City was full with its usual hurly-burly and little more. Signs of political activity were scarce; only a few cars suspended in mid-town traffic sported bumper stickers, and campaign buttons were hard to spot. The most active leafleting in Times Square was being done by two girls distributing pamphlets for a dating service called "Meet a Mate" -- a superfluous effort considering the location...
Practically every American is familiar with some of the costs, in time and frustration, of this predicament. Almost everybody has from time to time-or, frequently, every day -submitted to the hopelessly clogged, bumper-to-bumper auto jams that not only afflict the big cities but immobilize the multimillion-dollar freeways that were devised to speed an auto-borne population on its way. He has walked a mile or more through the corridors of a palatial new airport just to get to and from his plane, then found himself so far from a city center that the time spent...