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...Fernando Valley. It could be called Franchise Row. Though hardly a landscape to captivate the eye, the phenomenon is increasingly common to cities and suburbs. Franchising-an arrangement by which local entrepreneurs lease their firm name, product and operating methods from large chains-has become one of the fastest-growing sectors of U.S. business. Through franchising, thousands of independent small businessmen have acquired improved techniques, new economic power and a greatly enhanced chance for survival...
Franchising has spread to businesses as disparate as art galleries, nursing homes, dating bars, travel agencies, shoe-repair shops, lawnmower-sharpening services and dental-technician schools. There is even a franchised diet service (Weight Watchers, Inc.) and a franchised system for correcting nocturnal bed-wetting (Enurtone Co.). Recently, the fastest growth has been concentrated in the quick-service food field. It includes such enterprises as the 93-outlet H. Salt, Esq. Fish & Chips operation -whose founder, Haddon Salt, brought the idea from England in 1964-and the 110-outlet hot-dog-and-beer operation called Frank 'n' Stein...
...before taxes in 1968. Last year, spurred by acquisitions, Clubman's revenues leaped from $1,100,000 to $37 million, while profits reached $1,300,000. On the London market, its shares rose by 358% last year, making Clubman's Britain's second fastest growth stock (after Bolton Textile Mill Co., a firm that manufactures paper underpants). The joint holdings of Whitfield and Tanner stand close to $12 million...
...whimsical tribute to the Volkswagen. The little thing gets a crush on a down-and-out racing driver (Dean Jones) and follows him home. Jones spurns the smitten vehicle until he discovers that it has a mind of its own. The bug, it seems, is just about the fastest thing on four wheels and is fairly dropping its transmission to give Jones a ride to fame and fortune. The glory road, however, is constantly being rerouted by a swishy villain (David Tomlinson), who is determined to seize the wondrous bug and turn it into scrap...
...question answered fastest by the Radcliffe team was one in which the moderator gave the first line of a review of a novel and asked for its author and title. The question was "laid out on a psychiatrist's couch;" the answer: Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth...