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...Louisville paper hanger, Banner started working during high school as a machine-tool designer, became a clarinetist, next bought, with a partner, a grocery store in Louisville and, after selling the store, purchased a bowling alley, then a drive-in movie. Finally, in 1958 Banner seized the chance to buy the Nashville franchise for Shoney's Big Boy, a sort of Howard Johnson's featuring double hamburgers. His success with Big Boys led to another with Kentucky Fried Chicken. By 1971, when Shoney's Southern franchiser wanted to sell, Banner was ready...
Mercedes after Mercedes after Mercedes. One might expect to see them at the Beverly Hills Hotel, or perhaps a drive-in movie in Kuwait-but at a factory's employee parking lot? Ah, but the factory belongs to the German automaker Daimler-Benz, whose employees may buy the company's prestigious product at a 21.5% discount. Last year Daimler-Benz's 129,000 workers snapped up 40,000 Mercedes, or 11.4% of total output. After one year, employees are free to resell their cars on the open market. These days they often get 10% more than they...
Gomez admits that she is a near fanatic about trucking. As a girl in Chicago, she played hooky from school to watch truckers unload, and at drive-in movies she usually watched the freeways instead of the films. The mother of three, she is separated from her husband, and driving is the most important thing in her life. "A good truck is to a woman what a man ought to be," she says, "big and strong and takes you where you want to go. When a woman gets into a semi, it makes up for all the crap women take...
...muggings, no hijacks, no escaped lunatics. But the Boston subway as Saturday evening entertainment turned out to have its advantages: cheaper than a drive-in, warmer than ice-skating, and more conducive to intimate discussion than a freshman mixer...
...less evil than you expected. Down in Florida, where even now in the fading calendar days of winter it is so hot it will turn your mind to mush, political reporters are tramping through the condos, seaquariums, alligator farms, flamingo parks, houseboat harbors, trailer parks and drive-in churches looking for clues to George's appeal in the South. Who understands it best...