Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this freedom, from gas and even from roads, that has brought the American bicycle to its new prominence. For the first time since World War I, cycles are outselling cars. Moreover, the machines are no longer a juvenile item. As recently as 1969, only about 12% of bicycles sold in the U.S. were adult in design. This year the lightweight, diamond-framed "mature" model will account for 65% of the market...
...piece-for-piece" basis, and Kissinger had publicly committed the U.S. to doing so for its South Viet Nam ally. Although vast amounts of military aid had been appropriated by Congress to Saigon since fiscal 1973 ($4.9 billion worth), the level of replacing each expended or lost military item had not been maintained...
...work. Within the thousands of cardboard and tin shacks that ring the Nicaraguan capital, the breakfasts of beans and rice are headed over wood stoves and eaten quickly, patched clothing is pulled on, and an army of maids, servants, shoe-shines, car-washers, vendors of every conceivable food and item, beggars and hustlers, young boys and old women, all hanging to the economy by the edges of their fingernails, drifts off to work...
...traveling salesmen sold movies then Homebodies would be called a novelty item. Such gewgaws find their value not in beauty or utility but in their oddness. And, like a Whoopee Cushion or a musical nutcracker. Homebodies is an odd little item indeed...
...Offending the Audience. Asked whether the second item on his intriguing double-bill actually does "offend the audience," author Tom Wright '76 replied, "Yes, and it bores them too." See the avant garde epater les bourgeois, if you like, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb Ex. It promises to be interesting theater...