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Marchers chanted "rent control is out ofcontrol" in front of the Lowell St. home ofpro-rent control City Councilor Francis H. Duehay'55. The shades were drawn on the house and no oneanswered the megaphone-enhanced shouts, althoughthere was a beige Toyota Corolla in the drivewaywith a "Re-elect Duehay" bumper sticker...
...angry student shouting to President Derek C. Bok from the balcony of the Kennedy School forum after chants from a protest outside the building drew the attention of the audience. The forum was cut short, and the protestors followed Bok to his Toyota at a nearby parking garage. When the demonstrators blocked his passage, Bok left in a police...
...that Rabbit is doing much of the laughing. During the time covered in the novel -- from the 1988 Christmas season to September 1989 -- he turns 56 and feels even older. His former job of running his wife Janice's inherited Toyota dealership has been given, by Janice, to their son Nelson, whom Rabbit still does not much like. The elder Angstroms winter in a Florida condo and spend the summers back home in southeastern Pennsylvania. Rabbit is restless, watching too much TV and packing in junk food; he now carries well over...
...until Rabbit and his wife, Janice, return home to Pennsylvania that he discovers some nasty truths. Nelson and an accountant dying of AIDS have been stealing money from the family Toyota lot to support their cocaine habits. One of his former lovers dies, and he has an affair with his daughter-in-law. Toyota eventually revokes their contract with the family business, and Rabbit learns that even his small town has to deal with drug problems, the Japanese invasion, and AIDS...
Only a year old, Toyota's pathbreaking sedan has consumers in awe and automakers around the world anxious...