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...American on wheels, the car bumper has now become a billboard. During election time, it advertises his political allegiance; during the offseason, as now, it is used for laughs-most of them so bad that bumper stickers may understandably raise the number of rear-end collisions before the summer...
...Emory University. There the current movement is to organize an "aggression day" on which students can pelt one another with mudpies and bags of water regardless of ideology and for no reason whatever. Not the least significant expression of the nation's mixed-up mood was a bumper sticker with the slogan: SEND BATMAN TO VIET NAM. There was also a new button that proclaimed...
...buttons proclaiming I'M TOO OLD FOR A GOVERNESS, but no one was really fooled. Nor did Wallace make any pretense that Lurleen would govern if elected. "My record is running, not my wife," he said ungallantly. VOTE FOR LURLEEN AND LET GEORGE DO IT, urged the billboards. Bumper stickers on cars simply said VOTE WALLACE...
...nation heard this sort of talk before? Hadn't Herbert Hoover, just a year before the great collapse of 1929, proclaimed: "We shall soon, with the help of God, be within sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation"? In Louisville and Manhattan, bumper stickers and lapel buttons proclaimed: I'M FIGHTING POVERTY. I WORK. Louisiana Congressman Otto Passman complained that the ballyhoo was damaging the U.S. image abroad, averring solemnly that a family in his district had even received a CARE package from worried relatives in Europe. On Ed Sullivan's Sunday...
...member Transport Workers Union. The 134 miles of subway tubes, normally jammed daily with 4.6 million passengers, stretched silent and empty beneath the city; the 2,200 buses that daily haul one and a half million people over 554 miles of New York streets sat in bumper-to-bumper immobility in vast parking lots around town...