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...Wanna know why you've had your bicycle stolen every year for the past three years? Sgt. John McCarthy of the Cambridge Police says it's because you don't have the right bicycle lock, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ya Want Your Bike Stolen? | 9/25/1965 | See Source »

...name of "folk rock" -big-beat music with big-message lyrics. Where once teen-agers were too busy frugging to pay much heed to lyrics, most of which were unintelligible banshee wails anyway, they now listen with ears cocked and brows furrowed. The rallying cry is no longer "I wanna hold your hand," but "I wanna change the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Message Time | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...Wanna Drag, Mister?" The pursuit has never ceased; the sport has never slowed. Engines swelled in size from one to two, to four, six, eight, even to twelve cylinders, and speeds soared. In 1924, California's Peter DePaolo "cracked a ton"-averaging 101.13 m.p.h. at the Indianapolis 500-and Europe's dark genius, Ettore Bugatti, explained why he equipped his fantastically quick and costly cars with fantastically worthless brakes: "Automobiles are meant to go, not to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Hero with a Hot Shoe | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...aunt, who tried vainly to conquer a car and wound up pleading, "Somebody take this goddamn thing away from me," gave way to something the psychologists called "locomotor philia": the teen-ager in his chromed and channeled-down hot-rod who leaned out at stop lights and sneered: "Wanna drag, mister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Hero with a Hot Shoe | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

Brigitte Bardot: (To nearby garage mechanic) Wanna come up to my apartment...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: DeBeauvoir: A Review and a Dream | 6/17/1965 | See Source »

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