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...named Sue Babior (he married her June 25, 1955), Sahl finally fled Los Angeles, followed her to the University of California at Berkeley, and became the academic equivalent of a ski bum. Auditing classes off and on, he drank a tun of coffee a month in all-night campus snack bars, argued art, social science and politics into the abstract hours. He slept mainly in the back seat of his moldering Chevy, and ate cold hamburgers provided by a Nietzsche-soaked friend who worked in a short-order bin. Sometimes he slept on the window seat in the apartment...
...services of a $200,000-a-year executive in the world of business; he does the job for $16,725 a year. Of the PX's 67,500 employees, some 44,000 are foreign nationals working abroad. This mix sometimes presents problems. In Morocco, faced with native snack-bar waiters who spoke only Arabic, the PX had to set up a system of poker chips to place orders: red for a hamburger, blue for coffee...
...forked tongue in cheek. In St. Anton, Austria, a ski resort, he wrote of the Shah of Iran's exwife: "On the slopes, Soraya still behaved like a queen, was especially careful not to let any spill mar her majesty. She also refused to queue up at the snack bar. But she had to turn democratic afterward. There was no way of beating the queue in front of the ladies' room.'' So great is his prestige that Film Producer Peter Bamberger says: "Obermaier has written himself into such power that he can seemingly make or break...
...drive-in movies. It has taken advantage of the leisure-time boom, moved vending machines into sports arenas, bowling alleys and stock-car racetracks. At Squaw Valley's Olympic Games last winter ABC did $280,000 worth of business in ten days, decided to keep its snack bars in the area permanently...
Varied Menus. Presently out in front is Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. (1959 gross income: $140.5 million), which both makes and operates vending machines. Automatic Canteen has developed a battery of vending machines that offer a complete snack line including infra-red toasted sandwiches, hot soup, chili, baked beans, pastry, coffee and cigarettes. Says Automatic Canteen Chairman Nathaniel Leverone: "The sales potential in in-plant feeding alone is at least as great as the entire automatic vending business is now." In an industry where profits for operating companies run about 3% of sales after taxes, Automatic Canteen expects...