Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...49th Independence Day appearance, the Boston Pops, under the masterful baton of maestro Arthur Fiedler, sparked the evening festivities with a 90-minute concert of marches, popular tunes and classical works...
...waterworn stalactites of Carlsbad Caverns is like looking backward through time. To watch an alligator glide through the Everglades is to see a world still unsullied by technology. Seeing a black bear beg for food beside a highway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (the most popular in the system, with 11.4 million visitors last year) is proof that even in this age of the atom, the wilderness is never really that far away...
...Limiting deductions that individual taxpayers may take for interest. Carter has dropped any idea of ending the popular deduction for interest on home mortgage loans. But he is considering placing a ceiling on the total amount of interest-on mortgage loans, car-purchase loans, department-store charge accounts-that a taxpayer can deduct...
...fewer than 30 moped manufacturers have jumped into the U.S. market. Only one, Columbia of Westfield, Mass., is American-headquartered; all the rest are based in Europe, where mopeds have been popular for decades. The biggest makers are France's Motobecane, which has 5 million of its Mobylettes on foreign roads (including Bermuda, as legions of U.S. tourists have discovered); Austria's Steyr Daimler Puch; and Holland's Batavus. All have set up U.S. subsidiaries and are racing to open moped dealerships. Honda, the big Japanese maker of motorcycles and cars, as yet has no bona fide...
...sharpest division in American popular culture is between those who like a lot of sex in what they read and see and those who don't. Those who don't have a hard time ignoring the subject: four of the top ten bestselling magazines on the newsstands are skin books. In this highly successful and sleazy field, the big news is that Playboy, once the undisputed leader, no longer rules the roost...