Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amid the propaganda of ITT Tech and the limpid claims of innumerable steak and bres, a smiling face on a subway car poster beams somewhat cryptically, "If your city government fights for you, you don't have to fight back." David A. Wylie, a lawyer and candidate for his second term on the City Council, thinks of himself as a fighter...
...example Crout cites the case of Joyce Boyd in 1974. "After taking an early walk near Putnam Reservoir in Danvers, Massachusetts, she was attacked by two men when she returned to her car. Their obscene language made their intentions clear; but fortunately she had a handgun, the sight of which caused them to change thuir tune from 'White Mama' to 'OK Lady,' after which they ran to their car and drove...
...having to bear the full brunt of Acts of God or the Capitalist System. If you catch pneumonia or if you get liver cancer from vinyl chloride gas at work you need not worry about doctor bills. If your job becomes obsolete or if you are paralyzed in a car accident, the government provides any training and help in relocation necessary for you to get a new job. And when you are retired, you receive a very handsome pension (85 per cent of your best 15 years of earnings). But after all these reforms, the industrial economy is still based...
...patrol car may be more than just a fantasy of policemen's wives in the growing number of cities using women cops on line duty. In Washington, D.C., Officer Peggy A. Jackson, 27, charges that it is practically a rule of the force that "you've got to make love to get a day off or make love to get a good beat." Washington's 4,200-member police department includes 333 women, about half of whom are assigned to patrol duty with men. No formal complaints have been filed, but D.C. Councilwoman Willie Hardy is investigating...
...Sales of new cars jumped 12.7% above a year ago during the first ten days of October, only the second time this year that auto sales have run ahead of 1974. American Motors reported a 25.3% increase, General Motors 16.7%, Ford 15.7%; only Chrysler showed a decline (of 14%). More significant, the period was the first during which nearly all 1976 car models were available to buyers; the sales gain indicated that price increases averaging roughly $200 on '76 cars are not turning off would-be buyers to anything like the extent that price boosts of about...