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...fastest-growing rent-a-truck outfit in the history of the business. It has aggressively bought full-page ads in scores of newspapers and magazines, posted Jartran flyers in thousands of apartment buildings and mailed discount cards to graduating college seniors who would soon be moving their books, hi-fi sets and clothes. After some 17 months of operation, Jartran has more than 30,000 trucks and trailers and 2,200 independent dealers in the 48 mainland states. The waiting list for dealerships numbers 1,800. Though start-up costs have precluded any profits so far, Jartran expects revenues this...
...Mine and No One Here Gets Out Alive, a fisheyed life of the late Jim Morrison - have only rock in common. The Morrison opus, which has remained high on the trade paperback bestseller list for three months, is a sort of titillation special that reads like the hi-fi equivalent of the similarly successful memoirs of Shelley Winters. The Harrison book, on the other hand, is so baroque that it seems like the whimsical indulgence of a laird with enough money to buy into NATO...
...best thing about One for the Road may be that-flaws and all-it is even better to watch than listen to. Hi-fi meets scifi. Kink crazies can snap up a record, then clip the coupon that comes with it and send off for a video tape that shows the lads in full...
...hour man in this business. I'm only 19, and damn, there are so many things I'd like to be doing." In a rare burst of youthful candor he says, "First thing I'll do when I turn pro is buy the best hi-fi set in the whole wide world." He hesitates, then adds, "No, that will be second. The first is to find my mother a house in Puerto Rico...
...more or less aware of Japanese success in many products. We know that compared to a few years ago, we now buy Japanese hi-fi equipment instead of American, Japanese cameras instead of German, Japanese television sets instead of American, Japanese watches instead of Swiss. The four largest motorcycle manufacturers in the United States are Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Suzuki. Twenty years ago the Japanese produced less than 100,000 automobiles, last year 100 times as many--10,000,000--about the same as the U.S. produced. Since it does not involve consumer goods, fewer Americans know that Japan produces...