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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Post 4 Thi stars and strip sunday juy Young folks mostly Motorbike craze is sweeping Salt Lake City up upwards of a million More americans mostly Young driving motorbikes this summer than were doing so Only a few years ago. It s the Light Bike rather than the big Job that has been going ahead so fast in popularity. Anywhere once motorbikes went with the leather jacket tight pants set they re now finding favor with Junior executive types and Young families. Dealers report largest sales inthe 100-cubic-centimeter to 120  classes Cycle normally Range in engine size from the 50cc. Minibike to the Large 350cc.-and-above machines. Trail bikes buyers also Are after the Trail bikes for off the Street use which Are hauled to recreation areas and Riding Sites in trailers or on the rear of car Sand campers. Sales Are aimed at the youngest and outdoors men a change from marketing practices when the bikes were introduced some years ago. The National safety Council reports that nearly 2.2 million cycles were registered in 1967,an increase of about 450,000 Over the previous year. Japanese manufacturers s e the trend yith lightweight bikes. A flood of Brand names andean engine size for nearly every taste resulted All vying for apiece of the action. Advertising was geared to the under 35"bracket with emphasis on free Dom adventure and Economy of the bikes for the youngsters or As a second car for Youn couples. Boosts in sales most dealers report Gigantic boosts in sales particularly in the Trail models and new in Terest from women. Large motorcycles common afew years ago Are still being sold but they have shown no remarkable sales increase. Big Ger bikes Are now pleasure bikes dealers say with the majority of buyers recent graduates of the smaller machines who Are seeking More Power and Speed. Pensioners and outdoors menace the prime targets for the Trail bikes the College Crow likes both the Street and Trail models and teenagers seem Togo for the scrambler models lightweight machines with big special gearing Early All Price have contributed engines an available in ranges. Low prices to the Success of the two wheeled vehicles since prospective buyers find prices for the smaller bikes often under $250. Large speedy bikes approach$1,000 in Cost. Not a Lark the sport is not entirely Alark however As the cyclist is virtually unprotected often unseen and Seldom cared for in traffic. The safety Council said fatalities involving cycles increased from 1960-66, but registered slight decline last year. The Council feels the decrease was due to More stringent Federal Highway standards and state requirements for helmets and Spe Cial licensing. Thirty nine states now require cyclists to Wear helmets and about 34 require special testing or a Driver s License. Don Lhotka of the safety Council said the National Edu cation association is consider ing Driver education classes for cyclists and a program to Edu Cate Drivers on the dangers of cycling. To the Hills May be the Only answer for cyclists unprotected on the Highway from in concerned motorists. Real barbra stands up for rights As a person by Hal Boyle Garrison . A Suc Cess is a bittersweet Lollipop. It has brought Fame Fortune and acclaim to barbra Streis and in every major Branch of show business. But Brooklyn sometime homely duckling is an noyed by reports that she i imperious temperamental and sometime with. Difficult to work it annoys me to be judged by people who Don t even know me she remarked during break in the shooting of scenes from her forthcoming Iso million costume film hello Dotty they go by hearsay. It con fuses me but she is disturbed at the Dolly pair barbra Streisand is joined hello Dolly during filming on location Inin song by Louis Armstrong for a scene in Garrison . Associated press photo Home of the Coffee break a i ttys grounds for Ime by William e. Giauda Stoughton wis. Up this Community of 6,000 has taken credit for starting one of America s most popular Cus Toms the Coffee break. Now a Grassy suburb of Madi son in Dane county Stoughton once was a bustling tobacco bandwagon producing Center. It traces the Coffee break to about1880 when norwegian immigrant mothers who worked in then booming industries started it. Rolfe h. Hanson a retired columnist and vice president of the Stoughton historical society said the City s claim to the Coffee break idea originated several years ago in his column. He had been told by a coffe Salesman that Stoughton drinks More Coffee per capita than an Community in the country. Hanson said the Wagon Indus try run by targe g. Mandt which produced 33,000 wagons year at the turn of the Century employed Many of the men inthe City about 1,000. That left the women to work in the Tobac co warehouses. There were a lot of tobacco warehouses in town and it was pretty common for the women to work in them Hanson said. Most of the women lived nearby on Coffee  they went by. Police re psf hotel Kappeller new York a a Busi Nessman who climbs mountains was stopped Friday by police from clambering Down 20 Sto Ries of a Midtown Manhattan hotel. But Les Buckland says he Stillis going to go with nine other businessmen to the hindu Kush Section of Afghanistan to scale 22,000-foot it.  called a news conference to display his tech Nique for rappelling or climb ing Down the Side of a Mountain by descending via rope from the top of the Summit hotel a Lexington Avenue and 51st Street. Police capt. Matthew Conlo stopped the demonstration. Home once a Day to Check on their children the Home and How the next meal was coming along. It was called Coffee Street because every House always had a pot of Coffee on the stove Hanson said. This became the time out for what became a National Cus Tom he said. And it was spread to the rest of the . By Young men going from Stoughton toothed places when the Wagon Industry closed in the 1920s. Hillside Avenue never was officially named Coffee Street Hanson said but a lot of people still Call it  the City Council did consider changing the name to Coffee Street he said. But residents objected because they would have to change the addresses Ronall their records like social be  Hanson conceded that Stough ton s claim As the Birthplace of the Coffee break is not unimpeachable but no one s Ever challenged  it is something to discuss on the next Coffee break. Thought the son she is. I m afraid they Mav i m some kind of monster said cutting off a Small Oieni Steak to feed her is Mason Jason Emanuel i Don t want people to think i a terrible human being a it l Croil would Ini Amnot. _. Through on thef001 Yoi but when you Are a Star a Are an open target and the Fri Ger the Star the Bier the tar get. You can t win. If you to Bitchy and pompous they Donl like you. If you re Normal Art unassuming they say you re a interesting. If you ride in a chauffeur driven limousine they to you re acting hotly Totsy swing off. But if you drive the limousine yourself hey Don t Ujj that either. So she laughed and Malta Grimace maybe you d better just walk to  her own personal to barbra said you have to be yourself no matter what. I have always wanted to Excel in anything 1triedto be the very Best. I feel Bat self doubt is Bonimy biggest virtue and my wont fault. Better to be open1 self doubt is a virtue be cause it never lets me assume anything. I feel it s better to reopen and vulnerable to Hurt in doing one s  self doubt can be a fault also. In everyday life people can take advantage of it and wound  at the top of the Suc Cess ladder sometimes have to Ner torments unknown to Thost at the Bottom. What is barbra afraid of i m afraid of myself on personal basis she replied. But not about my career or work. That s where i have Cour  person s likes and dislikes Are usually keys to their charac Ter. Here Are some things Bam Bra likes Gardenias victorian Furni Ture Small Fluffy White dog Isea smells and country sounds Oriental philosophy and Cine food to be in the Middle of read ing 10 books at a time drinks All kinds of hats Art Nouveau and Antiques India Amin Wra music because it has the soum of the soul Early morning soft floppy Beds working Hart and being sometimes Lazy muted Subtle colors people w really care about what they stand tall dark handsome men w have a sense of themselves to tit. Nil n u Ai t feel their own  barbra has a Shorter list of a likes eggs hospitals ,. Brig computer Given for Pyramid eggs Muhl Juiyin "".shades, liquor the smell of Monia vulgarity Flat otes people who assume too familiarity too  herself up smiled and said. A i m really a i on Pond 1 a contradictions. But How can a appreciate the summer a never have the Winter san Francisco up the regents of the University of California have approved a planto Send a computer to an egyptian University to help uncover the secrets of the pyramids. The computer will be donated to the University by the International business machines corp. The University of California will pay to ship the computer from Scotland to Ein Shams universe  
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