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Picture a Toyota engineer in a Stetson, munching on a corn dog, and you'll get a sense of how the company sees its future. Toyota is constructing its sixth North American assembly plant, in the heart of truck country just outside San Antonio, Texas, aiming to build the next generation of its full-size Tundra pickup there and--if all goes as planned--finally conquer the U.S. truck market. Achieving that feat would mark a milestone for Toyota in its quest to become the great American car company and would follow its conquest of virtually every other market segment...
...other warm-water coastlines around the world, almost all the recent development on Florida's panhandle has been large-scale and anonymous: thoughtless high-rise condo stacks inexorably blotting out those few stretches along the beach that still have a neon-lit, corn-dog-and-Dr Pepper charm. But between Pensacola and Panama City, Developer Robert Davis is building a splendid and improbable little utopia. His nascent village of Seaside is an old-fashioned hamlet complete with a town square and a Greek Revival post office. The basic idea is simple and radical, even profound: although Seaside consists mainly...
...Broadway prices. Shows open and close more quickly in London than in New York City, where financial success usually depends on a long run: visitors earlier this summer could have enjoyed Liv Ullmann in Old Times, Charlton Heston in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Deborah Kerr in The Corn Is Green and Alan Bates in Dance of Death. Currently, Lauren Bacall is starring in Sweet Bird of Youth, and Vanessa Redgrave in The Seagull...
...sweet corn is pretty good,” she said...
...recounted the story of a Korsmeyer family trip to the Corn Palace in South Dakota, where Korsmeyer, the son of a livestock farmer, spied a one-ton concrete pig. Korsmeyer, by then the father of two boys, shipped the pig home—“by ground, because pigs don’t fly”—and set it up in his yard as a “symbol of pride in his humble roots...