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MOTORISTS flock to a Howard Johnson because they expect to find fairly uniform-if often bland-food, courteous-if not always swift-service, predictable and not too high prices, and clean rest rooms. Many customers are tugged in by their children, who make up 30% of Hojos' customers, are wooed with special bibs, bendable straws and their own menu...
...spiritual home of the U.S. hot dog -and the world's largest hot dog stand-is Nathan's Famous on Brooklyn's Coney Island. To Nathan's gaudy green and white stands each summer flock many of the millions of visitors to Coney, gobbling up more than 200,000 hot dogs (at 20? each) on a weekend. Summer or winter, Nathan's never closes. Its customers have braved blizzards just to reach a Nathan's hot dog: it is a regular last stop for many early-morning survivors of Manhattan's cafe society...
Wandering through a Florida meadow in the spring of 1952, amateur Birdwatcher Richard Borden spotted a curious sight: among a grazing herd of cattle was a flock of yellow-legged, short-necked white herons, darting between the cows' legs, snaring grasshoppers flushed up from the pasture. Borden casually shot a series of pictures, mistaking the birds for snowy egrets, a common Florida species. Months later, Borden discovered he had the first pictures ever taken of a new U.S. immigrant: the Old World's buff-backed, yellow-billed cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis...
...first, ornithologists speculated that the birds had hitched a free passage on cattle boats to South America. Now the prevailing theory is that sometime around the turn of the century-when they were first sighted in the Guianas-a single flock of the birds, migrating from Senegal northward, was trapped in an easterly gale, blown off course clear across the Atlantic to the South American coast. The few hardy survivors nested, reproduced and moved north to the U.S. about 1941 in ever increasing numbers...
Doyosi Ki-i-yeno. One evening last week, in an apartment motel in Van Nuys, seven Episcopalians of Father Bennett's former flock met together to await the coming of the Holy Spirit. Bursts of laughter from a television set across the courtyard invaded the reverent silence, but the two men and five women paid no attention, praying aloud from time to time for individuals in sickness or trouble and for "those who are resisting the out pouring of the Holy Spirit...