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...Japan's man in the street, Kakuei Tanaka offers an appealing change in style. He is, in fact, a new kind of Japanese politician: a straight-talking, Oriental populist. Almost everything about the man has voter appeal, from his hoarse baritone to his bumper-sticker name (which literally means "Sharp Prosperity Amid Paddies"). Tanaka was born in a rice-belt village, in Niigata prefecture, the son of a horse trader who had a financially fatal weakness for gambling. At 16, young Tanaka quit school and lit out for Tokyo, where for three years he ran errands for a contractor...
Jewish Christians are nothing new, of course. A movement bumper sticker recalls that "Jesus Was Raised in a Kosher Home." The New Testament church began with Jews-although they soon found themselves at odds both with the majority of their people, who refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah, and with Gentile Christians, who eschewed Jewish law. What is new about the Jesus Jews, besides their numbers, is the degree of their evangelistic.fervor. In an attempt to echo that fervor, the long-established American Board of Missions to the Jews has run full-page newspaper ads crowing about the number...
Students are then given a police form on which they list all the engraved articles, and a "Theft-Guard" sticker to be placed outside their door as a warning to prospective thieves...
Because people spend so much time on the road in L.A., actual conversation has been partially replaced by bumper stickers, a way of communicating where you're at even while you're busy zipping down the passing lane with your Alfa wound up to 90 in third gear. You can witness whole bumper dialogues as you drive along: A Volkswagener croons in a feminine-hip voice, HAVE A NICE DAY, a Pontiac GTO with an Orange County dealer's sticker snorts back, p.o.w.s NEVER HAVE A NICE DAY, and a VW bus crammed with hippies answers...
...regulations issued by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. These bear mainly on sufficient insurance coverage for the vehicle. Unless the registrant answers yes on the registration form to three specific questions on insurance coverage, thereby guranteeing sufficient coverage, the Harvard Police will not issue him the blue registration sticker provided by the Registry. A find of fifty dollars accrues to any student falsifying the registration form. A fine of $100 accrues to an educational institution failing to comply with state regulations on this topic. James T. Sullivan Parking Commissioner