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...weeks ago, Pay By Touch was launched at the Thriftway supermarket in west Seattle. From now on, registered customers need only place a finger on a small scanner to cart off as many groceries as they want. Developed by Indivos, a consumer biometric company based in Oakland, Calif., Pay By Touch may be the best thing since the express-checkout lane. It allows shoppers to authorize credit-card and bank payments using a fingerprint, a copy of which they have placed on file. "People like it for the same reason they like speed passes at gas pumps--mobility and speed...
Grocery Cart. The Gold Cup's eventual winner was no surprise to the fans. In three furious heats, Hometown Driver Bill Muncey, 33, pushed his orange and white Miss Century 21-owned by Seattle's Willard Rhodes, head of the Thriftway grocery chain-to an average speed of 100 m.p.h. for the 90 miles, deftly sliding around the hazardous turns, hanging on for dear life in the booming straights. Grinned Muncey, as he climbed out of the boat, "That's the fastest little grocery cart in town...
...broke in on smaller boats with 65 m.p.h. top speed. Eight years later, Designer Ted Jones, whose Slo-Mo-Shun IV revolutionized hydro design in 1950, gave Muncey his first crack at the really big boats by picking him to drive the first of Owner Rhodes's Miss Thriftway hydros. Muncey barely missed winning the Gold Cup his first time out, then came on to win in both...
Corsets & Asparagus. He had his closest call late in 1957. Thundering along the Ohio River at 175 m.p.h. during the Indiana Governor's Cup race, Miss Thriftway blew up spectacularly, hurling Muncey into the water. Luckily, he broke no bones; but he spent weeks in the hospital recovering from internal injuries, now wears a steel corset in every race. He sank the second Miss Thriftway in 1958, when he lost a rudder and rammed a 40-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. He placed a close second in the 1959 Gold Cup competition, won it for the third time...
...roostertail of spray soaring 50 ft. into the air, Stead seemed headed for certain victory when he spun off the course on the seventh lap. Stead wrestled Maverick back into the race, but could finish only fourth as Muncey brought Miss Thriftway home in front. But Stead was saved by the movie camera. Films of the start showed that Miss Spokane, which finished third, had crossed the line ahead of the gun. With Miss Spokane disqualified, Stead and Maverick took over third place, tied Muncey in total points, snatched the Gold Cup by a fractional advantage in average speed...