Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jones wheeled around behind Treasury, looking approvingly at the tourists all lined up to visit the White House. "Honk, honk," went a car. "Hey," yelled an occupant, "he's the Congressman from Tulsa!" Well, I'll be darned-a voter, thought Jones, waving back with a grin. He whizzed down the last block of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. Checked his watch. Seventeen minutes for the trip...
...Pleased. At times Brezhnev's manner turned into downright discourtesy. On past state visits Brezhnev, known as a car buff, had received an automobile as a present. This time the French decided to give him not one, but two: a Matra Simca Bagheera sports model and a Matra Rancho cross-country station wagon. But the new Soviet President was not pleased with the color of the trim on the wagon's seats (tan) and its exterior (green). Mortified French officials rushed the vehicle back to its manufacturer, where assemblymen worked frantically on reupholstery (brown) and a new paint...
...Jimmy Carter's warnings about fuel conservation have, if anything, merely persuaded Americans that they had better take their trips now while there is still enough gas to go around. Says Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist: "There's a tremendous resistance to anything that threatens the use of the car. The reaction to Carter's proposed five-cents-a-gallon tax was almost violent. The car is America's magic carpet and gives people freedom and autonomy. It's their little box where they have control over their environment...
...Bill Coonrod, a farmer from Monticello, Ind., joined some newfound friends outside his trailer and showed what 40 years of mandolin practice could do. Don Brown, a Huntingburg, Ind., plumbing contractor who slept in his car during the festival's first weekend, opened his trunk and pulled out a five-string fiddle that he had spent two years building. "I played until 4 o'clock in the morning," he said wearily. "That's what the fun of these things is. After the main show is over, everybody gets together and shindigs...
...Limiting deductions that individual taxpayers may take for interest. Carter has dropped any idea of ending the popular deduction for interest on home mortgage loans. But he is considering placing a ceiling on the total amount of interest-on mortgage loans, car-purchase loans, department-store charge accounts-that a taxpayer can deduct...