Word: drive-in
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...than an elbow of the great Catawba River. And with annual punctuality and a sound like muslin ripping, gunshots in New Mexico signal The Last Escape of Billy the Kid. Mixing fact, fiction, sentiment and gunpowder, the U.S.'s grandiose, often grandiloquent summer pageant plays provide a basic drive-in course in history for more than 5,000,000 people a year, some of whom are surprised to learn that the first De Soto did not reach the Great Smokies on six cylinders...
...Hollywood Bowl, while the symphony orchestra plays live, a man watches transfixed as he listens to the fights over his earpieces. In drive-in movies, canny audiences follow the picture and their favorite disk jockey simultaneously, presumably liking neither well enough to concentrate...
After World War II, however, Newton discovered that it could tune in three television channels; it acquired two drive-in movies and an air-conditioned bowling alley. The sound of trumpets and drums seemed to fade into the summer heat. The 45-member band does not even have uniforms any more. The bandstand is long gone, and concerts are held in Themian Park, where facilities consist of folding chairs set under one dim arc of light. On a recent evening only 86 persons were moved to share the sentiments of a local farmer who stretched full length on the grass...
...secretary walked into a Howard Johnson restaurant in Dover, Del., ordered orange juice-and were told to drink it outside because "colored people are not allowed to eat in here." That was four years ago. Since then, one African diplomat has been turned away from a Virginia drive-in theater. Another, with his daughter, was stopped at the gate of a Maryland amusement park. Last month, Dr. William Fitzjohn, charge d'affaires of newly emerging Sierra Leone, was snubbed out of another Howard Johnson restaurant, this one in Hagerstown, Md. In recent weeks, according to U.S. State Department reports...
...wife reminds him that he has promised to take his son to a Cub Scout meeting. Furious, he drags the boy off, sits through an interminable report on Indian smoke signals, arrives for the date two hours late-too late to do anything but tool over to a drive-in theater. They settle down for some heavy necking, only to find that they are parked beside their mutual laundryman, who is peering at them curiously. Terrified, they duck their heads, scramble for the keys, bump heads, accidentally hit the horn-which sticks. Two minutes later, the whole drive-in audience...