Word: drive-in
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...cameras are in place. So is the Pan-Cake makeup. Cue the lights. Ready on the fountains. Action. "This is the day God has made," beams the Rev. Robert Schuller as he bounds toward the pulpit. A glass panel separating the walk-in sanctuary from the drive-in sanctuary lumbers open. As a dozen fountains spurt skyward, a collective sigh from 1,700 worshipers at Garden Grove Community Church in Southern California announces the start of another Hour of Power...
...need was a drive-in church to serve this mobile culture. So Schuller rented a drive-in theater near Disneyland. Using established retailing techniques, he rang 3,000 doorbells looking for customers, bought strategic land near a freeway, put in enough asphalt for 1,400 cars, and erected a 90-ft. cross on top of a 15-story Tower of Hope...
...Thursday-the day a fresh supply of items goes on sale. Business has been so good lately at the Junior League Bargain Tree in Portland, Ore., that the store closed down one Saturday for lack of merchandise. At the flea market on the grounds of Miami's Tropicaire Drive-In Theater, stalls are booked an unprecedented two weeks in advance. The latest trend in shopping, apparently, is the shift to thrift...
...self-parody, therefore to being funny (at least for one or two viewings), than Paper Moon. It purports to show us the problems of what it tries to pass off as a typical high school class of the 1950s. The kids spend most of their time necking at the drive-in or necking in lovers' lane. Or rather squabbling about necking, because the girls all appear to be in a state of permanent hysteria over their reputations...
Cocks first spotted this week's cover subject as "a really aces actor" in the early 1960s, when Jack Nicholson was gracing drive-in screens in horror movies. In writing the story, Cocks drew on correspondents' files and the research aid of Pat Gordon, taking time out for a few quick antiaircraft battles at his favorite pinball parlor. The writing done, he turned his manuscript over to Senior Editor Martha Duffy, who asked Cocks to wait while she gave his piece a once-over reading. "I'm going to the movies," he announced. "You're what...