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...that evening when she and the Harrises briefly kidnaped Thomas D. Matthews, then a high school senior, while commandeering his 1969 Ford Econoline van. Put on the stand by Browning, Matthews recalled how the four had spent a surrealistic evening-cruising around for a while, going to see a drive-in double feature and then spending the night in the Hollywood hills. Matthews told how Patty had been so concerned about his welfare that she would frequently "pat me on the head and ask if I was all right." He told how expertly she handled...
...their zeal to stir up consumer business, banks resorted to all kinds of gimmicks: drive-in branches, banking by mail, extended hours. Prizes ranging from alarm clocks to television sets were offered to people who opened a new savings account. They held contests and saturated the home screen with come-on promotions. Big city and regional banks also expanded into Europe, Asia and Latin America, initially in order to serve U.S.-based multinational companies but later to provide a full range of banking services...
Twyla Tharp has been seriously watching movies starting from the tune that she worked as a carhop in drive-in theaters owned by her parents. A native of Indiana, she was named after a Midwestern pig-calling contestant known as Twila. "My mother thought Twyla would look good on a theater marquee," explains Tharp. Her ambitious mother also laid out a marathon course of piano, violin, viola, drum, baton-twirling, ballet and tap-dancing lessons that occupied Tharp's childhood. It all paid...
...crazy things," Springsteen remembers. They played not only clubs and private parties but firemen's balls, a state mental hospital and Sing Sing prison, a couple of trailer parks, a rollerdrome, the parking lot of a Shop-Rite and under the screen during intermission at a drive-in. A favorite spot for making music, and for hanging out, was Asbury Park...
...problem for the entire family, though American customs are as unfamiliar as the idiom. Accustomed to Saigon's strictly military parades, the Longs were surprised to find not only firemen and politicians but also schoolchildren marching in Corte Madera, Calif., on the Fourth of July. After seeing a drive-in movie theater and hearing about drive-in churches and banks, Long kept repeating with amused wonder, "America is very convenient...