Word: shops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Funny thing about mopeds, they can't get Blown off in the Shop. Funny story there--y'know why I always put that in the column? Think it's an in-joke? Well, you're right on the mark...
...NAACP is appealing a lawsuit it lost last September when a Mississippi court judge awarded $1.25 million to white merchants in Port Gibson, Miss. The shop owners had sued the NAACP for damages resulting from a 1966 boycott that protested discrimination against blacks...
...continuing effort to try to shoehorn a few more people and ideas into Jimmy Carter's days, Scheduler Tim Kraft's shop photocopied the President's schedules and laid them out for study. The visual impact was stunning?ranks of names, events, ceremonies. No wonder, they muttered, the planned 55-hour week for Carter had grown to 71 hours and, if the truth about his private time were known, probably 80 or more...
...Klein suggested that Ham and Jody dress up like Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for a May 19 article on "The White House Whiz Kids," the pair figured, why not? Photographer Annie Leibovitz picked up some odds and ends from a costume shop and the final ensemble wound up looking more like a cross between Butch Cassidy and The Sting. Says Leibovitz: "They were slickin' up for their pictures like country boys going to the city." But when she tried to get the President's men to pose in white ties...
...urgent problem, while expressing mildly worded disappointment with parts of it. They know that just now there is no way they can compete with Carter in a whom-do-you-trust contest. Much of the campaign against the program will quietly be waged away from Washington; United Auto Workers shop stewards, for example, may well tell the men in the auto plants that Carter's proposed taxes on big cars and gasoline threaten their jobs...