Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...date on a calendar, some 1,200 auto vans converged on coastal Santa Maria for an annual outing. The owners, whose carpeted and stereoed vehicles cost $10,000 or more, reveled in the escapist mood of spring. "It's a place to forget your troubles, your religion, your color, your hang-ups, your job-even your kids-if you want to," exulted one vanner, who calls herself Lady Van-Detta...
...English-speaking Americans with foreign backgrounds. Last October saw the first issue of 1-AM (for ItalianAmerican), with items on Italian food, wines and the arts. It was quickly followed by a competitor, Identity, a sophisticated blend of Italian American news and culture. Now comes Nuestro, an ambitious four-color monthly for Hispanic Americans. Nuestro hit newsstands last week at $1 an issue with a splashy cover story announcing "The Latino...
...blink. Protectionists are demanding higher tariffs to help these and other American products. Since 1968 foreign shoe manufacturers have increased their share of the U.S. market from 22% to 46%; during that time, 300 American shoe factories have closed, with the grim loss of 70,000 jobs. Foreign color-TV sets-made mostly in Japan, Taiwan and Korea -accounted for 18% of U.S. sales in 1975; they surged to 42% last year. With sugar imports pushing the price down to 120 per lb., domestic producers claim they cannot cover costs...
...Trade Act to recommend relief for industries threatened by imports. The ITC suggested that 265.6 million pairs of shoes-the 1974 level of imports-be permitted to enter the U.S. at the current 10% tariff. The duty would be quadrupled to 40% for additional footwear; for color-TV sets, it would be quintupled to 25%; and the annual 7 million-ton sugar quota for imports would be cut by more than one-third. The ITC estimates that if its tariff is adopted for shoes, 5,100 jobs will be saved and an equal number will be created as U.S. firms...
...proposals would add another $1 to the store price of casual shoes made abroad; shoe retailers, who oppose a tariff raise, estimate that the annual footwear bill for American consumers would increase by $500 million. At least another $40 would be added to the cost of an imported color-TV set; the price of sugar would edge up to nearly 12½? per lb., at a cost to consumers of $110 million a year...