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...Norwegians, infants, and grandmothers. But mostly there are middleaged, middle-American women, wearing shorts or double-knit slacks. Their hair is bouffant or stiffly curled. Diane points out the Loews Palace cinema "where Elvis was fired from his first job for fighting another usher over the girl who sold popcorn." There are "ooohs" and "aaahs" mixed with the click-flash-buzz of Polaroids and Instamatics. The bus makes twelve more stops in the hour and a half before reaching Graceland, and all of them have a poignant meaning for the fans. They see the boarded-up men's shop...
...pride of the Doyles, Pat crashed his bike on the fourth day in Iowa Falls, all those saloons and 250 miles from the last watering hole in Clinton. For those who made it from river to river, surviving the buttered corn, sweet rolls, doughnuts, lemonade, watermelon, apples, popcorn, homemade cookies, eggs-any-style, pork-burgers, wienies and pancakes, it was a nice way to make friends, stretch undiscovered muscles and, as Tour Director Don Benson put it, "eat your way across Iowa...
Back in the '50s, there was a fuss over a brainwashing technique known as subliminal communication. A movie theater found that if its films included tiny blips of commercials for popcorn and soda -moving past so quickly that the viewer did not consciously realize he was seeing them-popcorn and soda sales went up. These results were highly uncertain, though, and the technique was abandoned. Since 1957 it has been against FCC policy to permit subliminal techniques on television. Last month, however, the agency made an emergency exception...
...hysterics over the Panama Canal? The canal is on the way to obsolescence. By the year 2000, when Panama takes over, it will be no more than a quaint monument to a time when we Americans could do anything. And the Panamanians will have nothing more han the popcorn and hot dog concessions at this museum...
Some parts of the country had rain, even snow, but the Sun Day celebration still went on. At U.C.L.A., plans to cook popcorn on a solar-powered device were rained out, but 600 Sun Day sundaes-vanilla ice cream, orange slices, strawberries, raisins and nuts-were given away. Los Angeles' Museum of Science and Industry exhibited three sun-powered cars and beanies with solar-powered propellers. By the time the sun had set over the Pacific at 8:23 p.m., Sun Day had boosters coast to coast. Said Maggie Hardy, a coordinator in Los Angeles whose spirits stayed high...