Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHETHER OR NOT politics has anything to do with it truckdriving music has emerged as a genuine self-conscious trend with the rise to fame of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, and the release of their second album, Hot Licks Cold Steel and Truckers Favorites. Long a regular attraction around Berkeley, the Airmen did not release an album until last year. That album, Ozone, was a failure by the group's own admission. "We didn't know what we were doing then," Cody explained. The lifeless vocals and empty back-up effectively imitated the atmosphere of country music...
Comedy. A new "musical commedia" on its Boston tryouts. The chance to be a trend-setter, at your own risk...
Cares. No one has been more attentive to this trend than Richard Nixon, who has played on the ethnics' discontent. In speech after speech, he has extolled their place in U.S. society-most recently at the base of the Statue of Liberty, where he told ethnics, holding placards and flags to make original national identities known to TV audiences, that they built America with their spirit and enterprise. By championing the work ethic and denouncing welfare, by opposing abortion and supporting aid to parochial schools, the President has reaffirmed their values. In smaller ways, too, he has shown that...
...enjoyed such an overwhelming edge in endorsements as Richard Nixon does this year. By the beginning of October, reported E & P, 548 dailies with combined circulation of 17.5 million had come out for Nixon's reelection, while only 38 with 1.4 million circulation had backed George McGovern. The trend was continuing last week, and Nixon is certain of a much bigger editorial edge than in 1968, when he was favored by 634 dailies (circ. 34.5 million) to 146 (circ. 9.5 million) for Hubert Humphrey...
...girl gangs has paralleled an alarming rise in muggings that began last year. In the first six months of 1972, muggings in the most heavily populated areas of London were up by as much as 70%, and Scotland Yard recently established two special plainclothes squads to combat the trend...