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...mascot, Holliday adds. "He never intended it to get this large." "This large" means 500 guests a night at the motel and campgrounds, $20 million a year in receipts, 10-to 15,000 visitors a day through the summer and quite a few all year long. Now in his mid-60s, Schafer is "totally independent. He's a very imaginative, very progressive, and very wealthy man," Holliday reports...
...much about it. Bunky bestowed his own moniker on the group that evolved from the street corner, and, as the Sheppards, they had one halfway hit, Island of Love, in 1959. Then they played some live shows, turned up on Dick Clark's TV program and in the mid-60s just disintegrated. It was a typical rock trajectory: amateurs, hit makers, has-beens. But with the Sheppards, there is a difference...
...still to come. As summer begins, Americans are taking to the air in unexpectedly high numbers. The airlines' forecast of an 8% to 10% traffic growth this year has been about 5 percentage points too low. Load factors, which ran at 54% last year, are climbing into the mid-60s. The outlook: the best year ever for U.S. lines, with revenues reaching $22 billion and earnings up $100 million, to $700 million. But passenger discontent is rising even faster. The Civil Aeronautics Board is receiving a record number of complaints. Departure delays, which totaled 6,800 during the first...
...system works to some extent: in city-wide elections over the past few years liberals have managed to get a disproportionate four or five city council seats, and there has usually been one black on the council since the mid-60s...
...roots of the Nutrition Committee lie in the "discovery" of widespread hunger in the United States in the mid-60s. A documentary called "Hunger in America," aired May 1968 on CBS-TV, shocked the American people. They were shocked to find that millions of people in the United States never got enough food to eat and that their government was doing very little to alleviate the problem. The documentary was aired after the publication of a report by the Citizens' board of Inquiry in Hunger and Malnutrition...