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...best-case scenario for George Reeves would have been a car dealership in the San Fernando Valley. You know, one of those gigs where he could have donned an old Superman cape and done silly commercials - once all the rage on late-night TV in Southern California - in which he promised to make fabulous trade-ins faster than a speeding bullet...
...manual laborer. Having been retrenched from his factory job, Luc is also part of that exclusive tribe in Australia known as the unemployed (5% of the workforce, if you believe the headline unemployment rate is a reliable guide). In an early scene Luc goes to a motor dealership to apply for a job. "Are you a Holden or a Ford man?" asks the geeky employer. "Holden," says Luc, which to local audiences will mark him as one of a certain breed (to the non?petrol head, it's akin to telling twins apart). Then there are Luc's mates from...
...said. "I would ask questions, and he always responded." Not yet 20, it was clear that he had a deep drive for business. Between his university exams, Elkann would forego vacations to embark on internships within the company's holdings - at a Birmingham headlight plant, a Lille Fiat dealership, a Krakow assembly line. "It was a gradual process of being tested and wanting to be tested," Elkann recalled. "[Agnelli] saw that I was committed to the work. He believed you should do what you like doing in life. He believed in people developing the capabilities they're most suited...
...more adventurous, goes the 184.5 miles to John Brown’s stakeout, Harper’s Ferry W.Va.). After the DC/Maryland line, cut behind the backyards of suburban DC’s swankier ’hoods, and you’ll quickly find yourself at a Honda dealership smack dab in the middle of Bethesda...
...GRANNIES Their cheesy jingles ("We're a gaggle of grannies/ urging you to get off your fannies") reflect the rebel 'tude of this global cabal. Members of a Palo Alto, Calif., chapter promoting fuel-efficient cars were arrested in March after chaining themselves to the gates of a Ford dealership...