Status symbols on wheels in Europe and America
In a 1976 column the ADAC gifts Herbert Korner a $20,000 gold Cadillac to test social reactions, revealing fear and fascination with status cars. Europe sees Cadillacs as new status symbols while La Rochelle counters with 250 free yellow bicycles to decertify car status. The piece notes Americans’ reliance on cars as identity and contrasts European restraint with U.S. auto indulgence.
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ADAC
Herbert Korner
Munich
Korners
Europe
la Rochelle
Michel Crepeau
Carter touch and political savvy in New York magazine contest
In a New York Magazine look at headlines for the coming year, Carter’s shrewd political instinct is cited as likely to blunt rival narratives. Examples describe his de royalization moves like forgoing chauffeured cars and leveraging voter resentments while highlighting associated social issues and club activities from local civic life.
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New York
Carter
N.Y
Amy
Mondale
White House
Remembering rights and local civic notes in Bennington area
Looking Back surveys UNESCO human rights work and lists local leaders including Benjamin Sorkin of Hoosick Falls as Israel bonds campaign chair for Hoosick and Bennington. It notes fluoride debate before water board with George H. Plumb, plus school board elections and Berkshire ski results. It also comments on Carter era political impressions and tax and travel critiques.
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Unesco
Benjamin Sorkin
Hoosick Falls
Israel Bonds
Hoosick
Bennington
B’nai Brith
George H. Plumb
Water Commissioners
Arlington School Board
Philip Linde
Donald Kendall Jr
Arnold Wilcox
David Leake
Richard B. Leake III
Berkshire
Immaturity and discovery urged by Mead and Kissinger
The text quotes Margaret Mead on choosing lifelong curiosity and describes Henry Kissinger urging Americans to demand more than a self-centered good life in a broad, enduring warning to the nation.
Missile pothole ruse teased by Soviet officers
In a Kremlin situation room satire, a KGB expert demonstrates that American road holes and yellow lights are potholes not missile sites. Winter salt and car damage are cited to explain potholes, while officials debate patterns and misperceptions about U S missile locations.
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Kremlin
United States
KGB
North America
Boris X
Ussr
America
KBG
U.S
Washington
Legacy of a boss in Chicago politics after Daley's death
The New Republic argues democracy's orderly ruler change contrasts with Chicago's post Daley era. The succession fight appears to pit race against race and ethnicity against ethnicity, raising questions whether Daley used democratic forms to gain and then wield authoritarian control.
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Chicago
Richard A. Daley
Daley
Realliescat
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Boston
Beame
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Main Street
Theodore H. Newcome
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
PTA
Arlington
Pittsfield
Mass
Leake
Mab Cockrell
Col
N.Y. DuHamel
Boston City Hospital
Mary Queen of Scots
Britain
Elizabeth I
Warsaw
Poland
Iraq
Karim Kassim
Earth
Sparta
Nixon
Ford
Kissinger
Ritz Carlton
Henry
Sorensen
Foreign Service Union
Hugh Carter Jr
Jimmy Carter
Margaret Mead
Henry Kissinger
State Department
Art Buchwald
Brattleboro Reformer
North Adams Window Cleaning CO
Wile
Cdc
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
Finast
New Republic
Raschel
U.S. Navy
Atau
Main ST
Bennington, VT
Home Furniture CO
Cate Ihals
DEPT
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