Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential limousine drove down Bardstown's main street, it was engulfed by people stretching out their hands and shouting, "Jimmy! Jimmy! Jimmy!" Carter impulsively climbed onto the car's roof. As the auto moved slowly ahead, the President sprawled on its top, his legs dangling awkwardly over the windshield, a nervous Secret Service agent reaching up to grab his arm and keep him from falling. Through it all, Carter grinned delightedly. From his perilous perch, he reached out to the people. At least from his viewpoint, Carter's post-Camp David drive to get back in touch...
...crowds with tear gas and baton charges after lines of people waiting to buy soap and cooking oil got out of hand. In Lusaka itself, laundry soap and detergents were in short supply; toilet paper and cheese were unavailable; and milk chocolate had become a rare luxury. A Lusaka car rental firm is in danger of closing because it cannot get spare parts. The nation's inflation rate is running at about...
...motorcycle enthusiast, weight lifter and former Stanford University shotputter who made the Olympic team in 1952. Tall, tanned and blond, Chandler describes himself as "the world's oldest surfer" and regales visitors with tales of riding 12-ft. waves. He owns a $4 million fleet of competition cars and antique autos and is, along with Friend Paul Newman, one of the oldest active international race-car drivers. "It was one of those things I always wanted to do," says Chandler. A family man with five children, ages 15 to 27, Chandler finally took up the sport because Son Michael...
Neither scholars nor pop sociologists have really got around to charting and diagnosing all the changes brought about by air conditioning. Professional observers have for years been preoccupied with the social implications of the automobile and television. Mere glancing analysis suggests that the car and TV, in their most decisive influences on American habits, have been powerfully aided and abetted by air conditioning. The car may have created all those shopping centers in the boondocks, but only air conditioning has made them attractive to mass clienteles. Similarly, the artificial cooling of the living room undoubtedly helped turn the typical American...
...great cooling machine carries with it a perpetual price tag that is going to provide continued and increasing chastisement during the energy crisis. Ultimately, the air conditioner, and the hermetic buildings it requires, may turn out to be a more pertinent technical symbol of the American personality than the car. While the car has been a fine sign of the American impulse to dart hither and yon about the world, the mechanical cooler more neatly suggests the maturing national compulsion to flee the natural world in favor of a technological cocoon...