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The most lucrative place for rent-a-car companies to be is in airports. Needing ground transport, plane passengers account for about 70% of the $700 million in annual auto rentals. Last year however, the Federal Trade Commission charged that 96% of all airport car-rental income went to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTITRUST: Red Light for Rentals | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

Byrd again. The only choice. House of Representatives--a little more interesting. John Slack, a ten-time incumbent, and Avis L. Hill. Slack is this big, jowly guy I heard speak once. Once he had the Protocols of Zion inserted into the Congressional Record. The Protocols of Zion are something...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Voting Behavior | 5/11/1976 | See Source »

Avis Hill is lots more interesting. He's preacher, not a pastor or reverend, of some fundamentalist church up in Cabin Creek, and one of the leaders of a group that tried to remove English books from the Kanawha County schools a year ago. The textbooks included short stories by...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Voting Behavior | 5/11/1976 | See Source »

Below these top-ranking few, some small agencies have folded up, and some bigger ones are changing their approach because they have lost their fame as "hot" shops. Doyle Dane Bernbach, which produced the memorable "Lemon" ads for Volkswagen and the "We try harder" slogan for Avis, now stresses its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Back to the Hard Sell for a Lean Industry | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

When he is not throwing temper tantrums, Ilie Nastase can play a mean game of tennis. Last week the rowdy Rumanian stopped complaining about linesmen long enough to trounce Ken Rosewall 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 at the Avis Challenge Cup competition in Hawaii-a $10,000 victory that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 15, 1976 | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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