Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aerial Lobbying. One of Kissinger's official reasons for making the trip was to be the guest of honor at the major league All-Star game. Just before the contest began, a single-engine airplane circled Milwaukee County Stadium towing a sign that spelled out in giant red letters: DR. KISSINGER-ISRAEL IS NOT FOR SALE. Kissinger studiously ignored the aerial lobbying, hoping it would go away, and it did. Then the stadium announcer came on the loudspeaker to boom out a hearty welcome to "Dr. Harry Kissinger." (This was not Kissinger's only such difficulty: one well...
...Nashville once, and to the fictional Nashville twice, they're pretty much the same--weird, diffuse, and behind-the-scenes. Driving up to Nashville, Tennessee, is no big deal. At least Hollywood--which is a disappointment too, all 50's Jack in the Boxes gone shabby--has that big sign H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D up in the hills, and a couple of monuments you've seen in the movies. But Nashville's myth was spread by ear, so that without the radio on as you cruise in you could be anywhere, except for an eerie...
...evening early in 1971, as Author Gay Gaetano Galante Septimo Talese (The Kingdom and the Power, Honor Thy Father) was walking home from a Manhattan restaurant with his wife, he spotted a sign on a Lexington Avenue third-floor window: LIVE NUDE MODELS. That was when Talese, a lapsed Catholic of conventionally moralistic upbringing, suddenly realized that the sexual revolution had landed almost literally at his doorstep. Next day he walked back alone for his first massage-parlor massage...
...owns storage terminals with a capacity of 25 million bbl. Most of the Carey Corp.'s business is with industrial customers. But a subsidiary, Burns Bros., supplies heating oil to New York metropolitan-area homes. In Canada, the group's Caloil affiliate sells gasoline under the Calex sign at 250 service stations...
...majors with the Oakland A's. Where can he play? Superstar Reggie Jackson owns right, fleet Bill North roams center like a gazelle, and modest Joe Rudi is known as the best leftfielder in baseball. Most teen-age players would cast a glance at that outfield and sign up with another club or resign themselves to ten years in the minors. Not Claudell Washington. He had an A's contract at age 17, starred in the World Series last year at 20, and this season has taken over leftfield and was chosen to be a member...