Word: marche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LITTLE GIRL, maybe six or seven years old with straight brown hair and timid eyes, walks up to you as you get off the bus. "Buy a button? For the march?" she asks. You've travelled nine or ten hours in a miserable excuse for an economy bus to be able to march today. For a dollar, you can't refuse her. You buy the button, and allow the girl to pin it to your shirt. It reads. "Affirmative Action/Smash the Bakke Case." Welcome to the largest civil rights demonstration in 15 years...
...march won't get underway for another two hours. By then, the buses will have arrived, unloading thousands of demonstrators who have traveled from as far away as Wisconsin and Florida. In the meantime, musicians entertain the gathering crowd with songs of protest. Their performances are interspersed with selections from records suitable for demonstrations, played through the P.A. system. The sun's out, and when the breeze is not blowing it's warm enough for shirt-sleeves. It's a perfect spring day, the cherry blossoms are blooming and 20,000 demonstrators will march from the White House...
Thanks to Curtis and Florence Boit, a six-hole course was duly laid out in March of 1893, and ever since The Country Club has been one of the nation's premiere tests of golf. These first holes were "placed on a lawn in front of the clubhouse, in dangerous proximity, as after experience showed, to the front piazza...
Sales figures suggest that buyers are becoming more discriminating and value conscious. When General Motors in mid-March ran special sales contests, during which dealers pare prices, sales increased dramatically. While total new-car sales were down for the first six months of the 1978 model-year, sales of compact and subcompact cars increased by 13%. The star performer at General Motors last month was the boxy Chevette; its sales were up 84%, compared with a year ago. At Ford, Mustang sales rose 14%, while the new Fairmont is a stellar seller. Ford's lacocca puts himself...
...Chrysler suffered an operating loss of $49.7 million, compared with an operating profit of $119.2 million in the 1976 period. This year's first quarter probably wound up in the red too because the company's share of the total U.S. market has slipped (to 11.3% in March) and foreign operations are producing mounting losses. Standard & Poors has downgraded the company's bond rating, and a group of antimanagement stockholders anticipates that the 900-per-share dividend will be eliminated. Besides conserving cash and issuing 20 million shares of a new preferred stock this year, Chrysler...