Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American auto has long enjoyed a not-so-subtle sanctity all its own. The vinyl and chrome interiors have become mobile family chapels for communing with nature and each other; the weekend car wash has become a purification rite, the trade-in for a newer model a form of spiritual renewal and reaffirmation. Now the auto's explicit religious overtones and artifacts have spilled over from the dashboard, where they have long been visual obstructions, to the bumper, where they constitute eyestoppers if not public affronts. The religious bumper sticker has recently become a profitable business. An estimated...
When they could, farmers fought back. Their wives swooped on meat stores and plucked them clean. A group led by Mrs. Crayton Guhlke, wife of a wheat and cattle farmer, held a buy-in in Spokane, Wash., while LAMP (Ladies Against Meat Prices) was picketing on the streets. Mrs. Kenny Williams, a LAMP leading light, said she welcomed such an expedition. "That shows the public where the money is-on the farm." Trying a more conciliatory tactic, a group of 21 farmers in Columbia, Mo., bought most of a store's meat supply and handed it out free...
...next day, April Fools', left only Cochran laughing as the rest of the field scrapped for second place at the Snoqualmie, Wash. slalom. Starting about 50th, Steele slashed through the deep ruts left in the soft western snow and placed sixth on his second run, but like Carter had a disappointing first run and placed 12th overall...
Mercer Island, Wash...
...cans and are buying more bottled products. One Eugene firm, Emerald Canning Co., has shut down; California's Shasta Beverages, which distributes its drinks in cans, is also suffering financially in its Oregon operations. Bottlers complain about the cost of picking up empties and retooling plants to wash and refill them...