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Franey's workday in his commissary kitchen at Queen Village, N.Y., would make a traditional French chef goggle. Howard Johnson mainstays are still the frankfurter (20 million served last year) and the hamburger (15 million); Franey not only approves the quality of the ingredients for these French-frightening delicacies but has added his own touches to them. Principal touch: less fat, more lean. He also oversees the clams and the steaks. Last week Franey was busily processing 100,000 lbs. of Thanksgiving turkey...
Baseball players, like witch doctors, are a mighty superstitious lot. Take Gaylord Jackson Perry, 27, who pitches for the San Francisco Giants. Righthander Perry really likes steak, but his wife once gave him baked chicken before he went out to pitch. He won. So then it was chicken every workday. In the dugout before each game, he grabs the bat rack and gives it a shake-which puts the whammy on enemy batters. Before every inning, he runs out to the mound at full speed. Before a key pitch, he studiously turns his back to the plate and taps...
...work first. Invariably this shames the men into action. Also, because there is little formal marriage in the barrios, women stuck with eight or nine children have a greater stake in community development and are more cooperative. Another technique to attract a crowd on workday is to turn the occasion into a fiesta, with music and dance...
...sure, Walt stopped drawing his own cartoons in 1928, and has not piped the voice of Mickey Mouse on a sound track in years. He has even cut his workday from 14 hours to ten. But his calendar for last week included 30 conferences at his production lot in Burbank or at his research-and-development facility in Glendale, a back-to-backbreaking schedule with time out only to sip Sanka poured from his silver carafe...
...Each workday morning at 6:45, Daniel Jackson Evans, Governor of Washington State, leads the hardier members of his staff in a brisk trot around the Olympia High School track. In his first ten months in office, Republican Evans, 40, has also foundoccasion to hold a press conference in a swimming pool-leaving reporters wetter than wiser-break trail for a slalom contest, scale Mount Rainier and, when time permits, sail his sloop...