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...after experimenting with various recipes for granola as a "freelance baker," Gentry developed a formula that he liked and sold it for $3,000 to Sovex Inc. of Collegedale, Tenn. It caught on not only as a breakfast cereal served with milk and fruit, but also as a snack food eaten by itself and as a base for cookies. Since then, Sovex has enlarged its granola operation from a single pizza oven to a 20,000-sq.-ft. bakery plant with a capacity of 1,000,000 Ibs. a month. Sales in 1971: more than $1 million...
...necessarily rising, because the big downtown theaters are coming down. The trend is toward suburban minitheaters with as few as 150 seats. About 70% of the new theaters are in shopping centers; frequently one house contains several separate small auditoriums that share the same box office, snack concession and automated projection operations. Comedian Jerry Lewis, who is franchising such complexes as if they were fried-chicken restaurants, claims to have 55 in operation, another 120 abuilding. In cities, minitheaters are sometimes fitted into the hollowed shells of old urban palaces. The Warner Theater on Times Square, where epics like Exodus...
...night after the attack, and that same night, only twelve hours after Jerome Johnson fired three bullets into Colombo, business in a small Italian restaurant outside New York City began to pick up. A group of well-dressed men sat around tables near the kitchen having a late-evening snack and coffee. They chatted for an hour, then left. For the first time in years, the Mafia's high Commission had been driven out of the anonymity of phone booths and into a public meeting. Unwilling though they might have been to admit it, the new-style leader Colombo...
...passengers step off virtually into the heart of San Francisco's business district. On board the commuter's lot is little short of idyllic. City-bound riders, too rushed for breakfast at home, can buy mugs of fresh coffee, homemade blueberry muffins and cupcakes at the snack bar on the second deck. For cyclists there are bike racks below. From the sunny afterdeck, commuters can stare at some of the handsomest scenery in the world-the spectacular Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito's tiny houses clinging like mussels to the surrounding green-brown hills, deserted Alcatraz with wildflowers...
...This is what makes it a clean, old-fashioned ice cream place. We don't want tables for kids to hang around all day. Adults love to come to a store like this." But when they do, they often have in tow hungry tots bent on a bedtime snack...