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...SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE BICYCLE by Robert A. Smith. 269 pages. American Heritage. $9.95. Unlike those other bicycle books published last year, this tells you nothing about how to fix a Dérailleur gear. It has more important things to report. For example, did you know that bicycle manufacturers invented assembly lines? That pressure from bicycle lobbies caused some of America's "scarcely jackassable" roads to be paved for the first time? In short, if anybody thinks bicycles are having a boom now, Robert Smith, professor of history at California State College, is prepared to prove that...
...fire." But there was ample evidence that the negotiations were still, as a high Administration official put it, "on the track." Within a matter of days after the election, most observers believed, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese Negotiator Le Duc Tho would fly to Paris to fix the final details of a settlement...
Another Chapin innovation was the "Buyer Protection Plan," which gives AMC owners a warranty covering every car part except tires. The company will fix any faulty part for free during the first year, and on '73 models offers a second year's coverage for $150. Both GM and Ford emulate that plan on their '73 cars, though neither offers protection that goes so far as AMC's. The AMC warranty won the praise of industry watchers as divergent as Presidential Consumer Adviser Virginia Knauer and Mac Gordon, outspoken editor of the dealer newsletter Motor News Analysis...
...trouble," Lennie said. "I can't find a job. After all, who wants a coach who's won four games in five years and lost the championship of Rhode Island two years running? When the the Pats lost to Miami, 52-0, I thought I could fix up a trade, me for John Mazur, but allthe Pats would offer was an autographed picture of Brian Dowling, two kicking tees, and a hot dog vendor to be named later. You don't suppose the Crimson touch football team could use a little coaching help? What the hell, you guys would...
...rioting after the government attempted to hold down food costs in Rome by putting controls on many retail food prices-but exempted wholesale prices. Shopkeepers closed their businesses and battled with wholesalers in the streets. The government has lately agreed to let the Italian retailers' association fix the limits on price increases and post them in member shops or street stalls. But wholesale prices are still exempt, and they keep going...