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...shell crabs when the cara pace comes off, Americans feel naked and vulnerable outside their cars, and much Yankee ingenuity has been expended to make this unnecessary. First came the carhop, with a four-course meal at the rolling down of a window, and the motel, followed by the drive-in movie and the curbside teller's cage. Last month Macy's announced plans for a department store flanked by a spiral ramp to enable customers to park within a few yards of the counter they want to visit (TIME, April 10). And last week San Francisco...
...Australians have gone the U.S.'s automotive culture one better with the Motel-Hotel Shandon in Adelaide. The building overlooks a drive-in movie, features picture windows and bedside loudspeakers for sybarites who would rather catch their double bills from a bed than a back seat...
Most of the expatriate entrepreneurs draw on ideas that have already proved successful in the U.S., but have yet to catch on or are just catching on elsewhere: self-service laundries, bowling alleys, drive-in car washes, quick shoe-repair shops. But the task of setting up a small business in a strange country is far tougher than setting up one in the U.S., where the failure rate is high enough even without the resentment from foreign competitors that the American abroad often faces. Nonetheless, the appeal of setting up business overseas is undeniable. Says Peter Pach, who went...
...prowl cars can chase speeders clear to Idaho if necessary. Illinois has put a criminology professor in charge of the whole mess. The car has begun to shape campus life all over the country. The timing of cultural events depends on available parking. Fraternity house lawns look like drive-in restaurants. On sprawling campuses, where classes may be miles apart, students confess that they occasionally pick courses not for intellectual interest, but for parking proximity. Harvard men drop their Wellesley dates long before the girls are ready to call it a night - the boys have to rush back to Cambridge...
...short, U.S. higher education's most vivid lesson today is that getting into college on paper may be a lot easier than getting to it in person.' Maybe the only solution is to turn colleges into educational drive-in movie theaters -how else can they teach students who cannot get out of their cars...