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...Strip. It was business at first sight. As Raquel recalls it: "He saw me and I saw him, and we put our heads together." The result of this cerebral huddle was the creation?three weeks later?of Curtwel enterprises. Shortly thereafter, things began to happen. Bikini picture in LIFE. Billboard girl on ABC-TV's Hollywood Palace. Twentieth Century-Fox contract. Said Fox Talent Director Owen McLean: "We thought we would build her up slowly; that it would take some time. But she got more publicity by accident than most girls get on purpose...
Spellbound Senators. He proposed a better way. Each state should merely pay each billboard company to take down its signs as leases expire. In one blow, red tape would be minimized...
...fact is that Lady Bird Johnson's famous highway-beautification program has become a parody of its original intentions. For one thing, the Federal Highway Administration has done virtually nothing to implement it. Because the law forbids rural-highway signs, many banks have also quit financing small billboard companies. Without cash for maintenance, a lot of billboards have been allowed to rot on the roadsides-becoming uglier than ever. Big billboard companies-still collecting rent on their legal signs in urban and commercial areas -are buying billboard locations cheap and building new signs, betting that the Government will...
...wrestled and wrestled with what I should do," continues Snarr. "I finally realized that highway beautification was a fundamental responsibility of every citizen." He moved to persuade other billboard companies in Utah not to fight the act, then helped to get a state compliance law passed. Now he is trying to move the whole country...
...obstacle is bureaucracy. Most states planned their beautification programs on a far too complex basis. Committees would choose the stretches of road to be cleaned up first. Then teams of engineers would draw survey maps, appraisers would evaluate every sign, Government would review the appraisals, and finally the billboard company would get a contract to remove a sign. The whole process, Snarr saw, could last decades and cost $2 billion or more...