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FRONT ROYAL (pop. 9,000). With the closing of the only high school in Warren County (TIME, Sept. 22). business slowed to a standstill. The P.T.A. canceled its fun festival. Students lazed around The Corner Shoppe across the street from the maple-shaded courthouse, drinking Cokes, leafing through girlie magazines...
To Washingtonians, from Cabinet officers to Government clerks, the orange-roofed Hot Shoppes are as well known as the Washington Monument. Last week Hot Shoppe Owner J. Willard Marriott branched out with another sort of monument-one of the world's largest motels. Sprawling along seven Potomac-side acres...
One day while her husband was lunching with the press, the Queen decided to go shopping. Guided by a lady in waiting, she bought several hats (small, to go with her new Italian hairdo) and sampled her first American hot dog and chocolate malted at a Hot Shoppe.
Other canny Stratfordians will also cash in. Just inside the Merry Wives Gift Shoppe is inscribed: "Make Bold With Your Money-Merry Wives of Windsor" This blunt advice* from the best source prompts thousands of tourists to buy knickknacks ranging from ashtrays to souvenir pillows stamped "Stratford," "Avon" or "Shakespeare...
The things that used to be best about the best Disney movies are now so emphatically good that they verge on mere blatancy; the old weaknesses have grown a hundred times their old size. The draftsmanship is becoming rigid and frigid in a kind of gift-shoppe stylization. The outbursts...