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Last week the U.S.'s biggest Drive-In cinemansion was thriving. Just west of Evanston in the richly populated suburban belt north of Chicago, this month-old bow to the U.S. citizen's affinity for all but living in his automobile was evidence of a now established evolution in U.S. entertainment...
Offering the services of a combined filling station and roadside hot-dog stand, Chicago's new 1,500-car Drive-In is a gaudy affair. There are white-uniformed attendants to wash dirty windshields for a better view of the screen, and to check patrons' cars for oil, gas, water, air. There are also comely females in white satin slacks to peddle food, beverages, programs...
...Houston, Texas last week, A.F. of L's Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union demanded that proprietors of drive-in, curb-service restaurants pay their 300 waitresses more money, cover them up. "Those girls wear shorts or grass skirts, rain or shine." said the union's Jack Parm-ley. "Why, their clothing is next to noth-ing." He set a time limit, said he might then call a strike for a clothed shop...
Despatches from Rome last week indicated that His Holiness no longer uses his carriage drawn by a team of brave horses. If so, he has changed his daily regime disclosed last Easter. It was then his custom to set out at 4 p. m. daily for a drive-in his carriage week days, in one of his motor cars Sundays (TIME, April 25). The Vatican equerries apparently now function more as garage attendants than as stable attendants...