Word: spokemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five hundred Indians joined at that first meeting, and the membership has climbed steadily since. AIM spokemen boast 125,000 members, a figure that by the best estimates seems too high. The movement, however, does have support-over 10,000 Indians joined the "Trail of Broken Treaties" caravan to Washington last November, which ended with a takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs office...
...children's bikes with elongated "banana" seats, tall "ape-hanger" handlebars, and moderate $30-$50 price tags. Then an adult bike boom ballooned, and demand shifted to lightweight ten-speed racers that start at around $85 and range upward into used-car prices: $475 or more. Bicycle-company spokemen say that this year, for the first time since the 1890s, nearly one-half of all bicycle production is geared for adults. Caught in the intergenerational crossfire, manufacturers turned out 6,000,000 bikes in 1968, then cut production to 5,000,000 in 1970. For 1971, bikemen are boasting...
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