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...shops"-small businesses that rent their name, product, design and sales methods from big franchisers-has grown to an estimated 100,000, which this year will take in more than $1 billion. Eleven hundred companies now dispense franchises (v. only 200 in 1945) to enterprises that feed people, fix cars, clean clothes, keep books, and collect bills. Among the franchise names that have become a part of the American landscape and language are Midas Muffler, Chicken Delight, Redi-Spuds, Mugs Up and Little Pigs of America...
...regularly blast the Can-ditto's tight controls on workers from beneath the sheltering wing of the church. One such group, the Young Christian Workers, publishes an uncensored and outspoken monthly bulletin, Juventud Obrera, that demands free, Western-style labor unions, lashes out at the anachronistic sindicatos, which fix prices and wages throughout the country. Said journal Editor Francisco Guerrero, 25, describing his mission last week: "Our work is God's answer to the evil negation of all human values. It is the only salvation for Spain's masses, oppressed from above [by Franco] and menaced from...
...Teamsters to organize the county. Practically every miner in McDowell watched Dave Brinkley's report on Jimmy Hoffa and his union, and to them Hoffa looks like the messiah. "Jimmy could do it," was the general opinion. "He's tough--if we get him in here that will fix things up in short order." Tough men themselves, these miners are convinced Hoffa will understand them and their problem. But a Teamster representative recently studied the situation and reported that it was almost hopeless. The Union has no plans now to intervene...
...horror to come, Director Alfred Hitchcock goes nattering on with an hour of some silly plot-boiling about a flirtatious society girl (Tippi Hedren), a lovelorn schoolmarm (Suzanne Pleshette), an Oedipus wreck (Rod Taylor) and a pair of lovebirds. Hitchcock addicts will just be getting jittery for their first fix of gore when it suddenly becomes clear that the birds is coming: man's feathered friends set themselves to wipe out an entire village on the California coast...
...Post piece said that "he wasted $6,000,000 by sulking on the set" of Mutiny on the Bounty. Bear Bryant, who brought a $500,000 action last fall, after the Post accused him of teaching brutal football, says that he will file another suit for the football fix story...