Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feature. Jim in car #2 guarantees loudly that he will drive his "Fair Lady Beauty Salon" special, complete with dragging bumper, to victory. Damned if he doesn't, for Jim understands the secrets of iceracing: stay out of the sliding wrecks on the corners, drive in high gear but steady, pass when it's hardly a gamble. He slows to grab the checkered flag from the starter, circling Sunrise Lake in victory...
Even as Reagan hopscotched across the country last week, speaking in South Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois, as well as Iowa, the suave Sears described his candidate's campaign as still being only in second gear -and right where it should be. Tracing designs in the air with long, delicate ringers and a Viceroy cigarette, Sears told TIME Senior Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett: "Political campaigning is a collection of enthusiasms, instincts, energy and emotion. You don't want to get your people spent too early if you don't have to." Witness, says Sears, Ted Kennedy...
...life goes on, doesn't it? After the war wound down and affirmative action was getting in gear, New Lefters faced three logical alternatives: terrorism, the hippie life, or local political organization. I stayed happily hippie until my running battle with the Nixon-bolstered American Gestapo (the DEA) took a turn for the worse. Watergate was distracting; but as the Mountie told the renegade Eskimo in The Savage Innocents,men forget and men die, but The Book doesn't. Too, my father's passing made the nation's economic problems one of my concerns. It got involved in politics with...
...heroes' homecoming. In two separate shuttles on a chartered Air Botswana plane, 84 senior officers of the Patriotic Front's ZIPRA and ZANLA guerrillas landed at Salisbury airport to the cheers of some 50,000 jubilant supporters. The youthful-looking soldiers, dressed in crinkly-fresh camouflage gear, were returning from their bases in neighboring Zambia and Mozambique to begin carrying out the Zimbabwe Rhodesia cease-fire accord. Thousands of black demonstrators waited all day under a blistering African sun. They reveled in the apparent success of the guerrillas' seven-year armed struggle for black majority rule...