Word: drive-in
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...Angeles sporting-goods store the day before the fiery siege in which six of the S.L.A. gang members died. For twelve hours, the trio held Matthews captive while driving aimlessly around the Los Angeles area in his van. They even stopped for a while in a drive-in movie. Immediately after his release, Matthews, fearing reprisal by the S.L.A., did not tell the authorities that Patty had been in the truck. But two days after the Shootout, he confessed that Patty-wearing a short, dark, afro-style wig as a disguise-not only had been a member of the trio...
...efforts paid off in his first encounter: discouraging the sale of land to builders of a planned drive-in theater. Polizzi sent the Democratic ward committeeman into the streets with a sound truck announcing an emergency meeting in the Big Club Hall. After a session exploring the blight that the drive-in would inflict on the area, a small army of Italian dowagers volunteered to lie down in front of the bulldozers. The sellers backed down, and the Hill's alderman quickly slipped a regulation through the zoning board forbidding a building permit for any drive-in within...
...student use. New Mexico State University in Las Cruces even gives credits for skating, and the Boy Scouts have introduced a roller merit badge. But the majority of skaters have been lured by the garish, ultramodern rinks that are becoming as much a part of the American scene as drive-in movies or McDonald's. Since 1970 more than 400 rinks have opened-150 last year alone-many of them in suburban shopping centers in such heartland cities as Chicago, Omaha and Columbus. Moreover, gasoline shortages, which will keep many Americans from driving to lakes and beaches this summer...
...RECREATION INDUSTRY faces a steep decline because the country will have to get over its addiction to automobile vacations-while airline flights are being reduced too. Drive-in restaurants, hotel and motel chains and ski resorts are obvious potential sufferers. Though some ski-resort operators remain hopeful, Frederick Andresen, president of Ski Industries America, worried that a mandatory Sunday closing of gas stations may threaten 750,000 jobs and $2 billion in business. Some analysts expect sales of cameras and film to drop, because they are largely bought by vacationers. Las Vegas is still booming; MGM this week will open...
...program has become an immediate boon to the community. Students work each afternoon on jobs that Lodwick helped them land, and Lodwick marches them to the local bank once a week to deposit 10% of what they earn. One boy runs the projector at the local drive-in, another who loves horses helps at the town tack shop. One has worked out so well on a nearby cattle ranch that the owner wants to pay the youngster's tuition at agricultural college...