Word: drive-in
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...Young Lovers is almost worth seeing, though, for its drive-in movie episodes. Fonda has been rebuffed after trying to cop a little in the front seat. He stares sullenly at the screen and finally remarks, "What a lousy flick." At the theatre I was at, the audience broke into spontaneous applause...
...hates pigeons, b) once started a forest fire, c) had a friend who was a better poet who almost got killed when they were swimming in an irrigation ditch, but who recovered only to die on a golf course while the narrator was either on a hill behind a drive-in movie with a girl or on a barren shore, d) that the friend had started writing bad poems while in the hospital anyway, and e) that the narrator has had some connection with California migrant workers. But the chronology and emotional connections are hopelessly muddled...
...junior or senior year he develops an insatiable craving for high school culture. Oddly, he is most often one who despised that way of life as a high school senior. But suddenly, having always hated rock 'n' roll, he finds himself singing surf songs in the shower, going to drive-in movies, to Saturday night "Y" dances, bowling, and travelling out with the boys for a big hairy pizza afterwards. Graduation almost upon him, he undergoes a painful nostalgia for the days he racked up A's with short essays on "My Dog," "What I did last summer," and rewrites...
...effort to ensure better profits, the casualty firms have tried to cut their costs by installing computers and setting up drive-in claims offices for on-the-spot settlement designed to eliminate expensive paper work. Sears Roebuck's Allstate, which pioneered many of the innovations, now has 375 such offices. The industry has donated driver-training equipment to many high schools to help slow the rising auto-accident rate and has begun tailoring its policies more closely to fit the risk. Insurance commissions have been besieged by companies seeking rate increases: fortnight ago. New York granted a long-awaited...
Even in Mississippi. Similarly, Negroes were admitted to previously all-white hotels and eating places in Savannah, Thomasville and Warner Robins, Ga. In Texas, Dallas' Piccadilly Cafeteria, a motel and lunch counter in Longview, restaurants in Palestine, and Austin, and a Beaumont drive-in were integrated. Thirty-three Memphis restaurants, including one of the city's largest downtown cafeterias, opened their doors to Negroes. Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the Memphis-based Holiday Inns motel chain, noting that he had instructed his motels to obey the new law, said: "The alternative is eventually anarchy, chaos and destruction...