Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...station break allows time for any of the following: washing and rinsing about one-third of the dinner dishes, emptying trash, sorting or putting away the wash, pressing any two wash-and-wear items, filling the coffeepot for the next morning, feeding any household pet. For men: finding the car keys, tucking in the children, taking trash out, balancing checkbook, having brief argument with wife or kissing wife up to seven times...
...only at the threshold of pain, the local variety tests the steel of man's capacity to endure. A local "30-minute" news program consists of twelve minutes of news and weather and 18 minutes of commercial blight. The deluge of drivel is often highlighted by a car dealer's hypocritical, Bible-waving sign-off: "Gaw bless ya 'n' yore luvved...
...runoff? Said another bitter Ne gro leader: "We don't care that much." Probably, though, a majority of Arkansans still do. What they want is more response from Bill Fulbright-perhaps some of the down-home concern that now impels the scholarly Senator to pop into his car alone and disappear for days at a time into the just-folks country, squeezing hands and lifting his hat to compare bald spots. The primary will be only the first hurdle. The winner will still have to face Republican Charles Bernard, 40, a racial moderate and a fiscal conservative...
...federal funds. Last week, reacting violently to a severe trimming of a New York City job program that last summer employed 23,000 teenagers, some 1,500 youths descended upon Mayor John Lindsay's City Hall office in protest. In a three-hour near-riot, they smashed car windows and shouted some new slogans, including "Earn or burn" and "Sock it to my pocket." Lindsay denounced the ruckus as "disgraceful," then announced that the city would ante up some $5,000,000 that had been previously earmarked for the program...
...attempt to mollify its critics - was devised during six years of research by the American Mutual Insurance Alliance, a 122-member trade group. Ex plains President Paul S. Wise: "As conceived more than half a century ago, an auto-liability policy was designed to protect the driver of a car against law suits, not to compensate the accident victim. Legally, this is still so. But public expectations have shifted toward protecting the injured." Though the alliance carefully calls its plan" Guaranteed Benefits," the guarantee does not cover property damage; it applies only to injured persons whom the insurers deem...