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Providing those operators has become a business in itself. About 25 answering services have sprung up to handle the calls, many of them based in Omaha, in part because that area houses headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, and telephone service is particularly good there. Avis Rent a Car and...
When it comes to the leasing business, most people automatically think of companies like Hertz, Avis or Ryder System. In fact, much of the $30 billion-a-year leasing industry involves the back-and-forth renting between companies of everything from printing presses to jet planes. Certain provisions in the...
When the bloom was on the roads, the American who would not-or could not-drive a car was dismissed as a sponger or a dimwit, doomed to a life of dependence on alien wheels and, quite likely, celibacy. The nondriver was a rara Avis (though he could not rent...
A rental car should look as if it had just wafted in from the assembly line, right? Not necessarily. There is one national outfit that actually prides itself on hiring out autos that are up to ten years old and often look it. The network, sardonically named Rent-A-Wreck...
There a photographer cap tured Mr. B. with the 8-ft. rara avis: certainly ballet's oddest couple since Nureyev teamed with Miss Piggy in Swine Lake.