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They found the highway restaurants "faultlessly clean" and staffed by "smiling waitresses," and the motels inspired them to say, "We can and must learn a lot from the example of the American 'overnight industry.''" They found that Cokes "really did make things go better," so they drank 300 of them. As for catsup, they claimed that it turns "every meal tastier." They added: "What happened to catsup in the Soviet Union...
...candidates in this nonparty election are no less violently opposed on impersonal issues. Bradley wants to limit Los Angeles to a population of 4,000,000 (it now has almost 3,000,000); Yorty opposes sharp restrictions on growth. Bradley favors a moratorium on highway building; Yorty argues for continued building of highways, which he says "really move a lot of automobiles very efficiently." Bradley thinks oil drilling off Los Angeles beaches was started partly by "deceit and deception" and should now be banned; Yorty insists that "we ought to do everything we can to develop...
...trouble started before Secretary of State William Rogers arrived. In Bogotá, thousands of Colombian students boycotted classes to protest his 17-day tour through eight Latin American nations. Others blocked the main highway from midtown Bogotá to the airport. By the time Rogers arrived, however, most of the students had been dispersed by police, and the official motorcade zipped into the capital without incident...
...have found difficult to organize or have ignored. This success has been achieved against fierce resistance from many government officials who insist that public workers have no right to strike. Some 120 road workers in Garrett County, Md., won recognition for their A.F.S.C.M.E. local only after striking the state highway department for 365 days, one of the longest public service strikes in U.S. history. Some 1,300 mostly black garbage men in Memphis got their local recognized in 1968 after a bitter 65-day walkout that indirectly precipitated the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; he was shot there while...
...seems self-evident that the city of Cambridge is a Galapagos for humans, I am still left with the word "Archipelago." Until I find a dictionary that defines Archipelago, I will continue to assume that it refers to a close conglomeration of McDonald's Hamburger restaurants along a highway in the Southwestern part of the United States, most likely Los Angeles...