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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Waving Confederate flags, emitting Rebel yells, and sipping beer from paper cups, spectators at the big raceway in Darlington, S.C., waited with genial impatience last week for the start of the Southern 500, a classic stock-car event. They barely noticed the tall, lean man whose neat blue and white seersucker suit contrasted sharply with the bib overalls, T shirts and baseball caps in the crowd. Then the stranger in town stepped up onto the platform erected temporarily on the edge of the track, approached the microphone, and desperately tried to create an instant rapport with his audience...
...turn to address the crowd. Declaring that he had been a stock-car fan for 25 years, Carter promised that if he was elected President the drivers would be invited to the White House. Standing ten feet away, Dole remarked to anyone within earshot: "It's going to be a busy place...
Steiger's campaign was hurt early on when he was erroneously linked with the gangland-style slaying of Don Bolles, the Arizona Republic reporter who was killed by a bomb planted in his car (TIME, June 28). When Steiger went to the police to offer help in solving the slaying, headlines in the Republic gave the false impression that he was a suspect. Later, the newspaper endorsed Steiger, partly offsetting the damage...
...state's unemployment rate could jump from 4.7% now to nearly 20%. Local schools may suffer, since they rely heavily on cattle head taxes for income. Numerous banks may be hurt, particularly those that lend almost exclusively on cash crops and cattle. Many banks have also extended car, machinery and disaster loans to farmers who now have little cash to repay them. The light industry that is gradually moving into South Dakota may provide some new sources of revenue, but in two-thirds of the state's counties, agriculture still accounts for more than 50% of total income...
...GUMBALL RALLY is a car stunt comedy about an informal but highly ritualized coast-to-coast race. The competition, organized by a bored businessman (Michael Sarrazin), is joined by a loose freemasonry of friends, rivals and fellow speed freaks. Among them: a libidinous Italian race driver (Raul Julia), a Pennsylvania housewife (Susan Flannery), a crazed motorcyclist (Harvey Jason), even a mechanic and his obstreperous girl friend (nicely played by Lazaro Perez and Tricia O'Neil) who yell and argue from the Hudson River to the Pacific. The course is the superhighway system of America. The object...