(1) Ford's motorsport supremo Walter Hayes had fallen into conversation with the film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, with the result that AMR suddenly found itself building a handful of Ford Zephyr-engined cars for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
(2) He dazzled each of them with a string of Hollywood names, name-dropping the likes of Oliver Reed, Julie Christie and Aaron Spelling to reel in the wannabe stars, while telling one she had to sleep with Cubby Broccoli to land a Bond role and another she should have sex with David Bowie to land a part in the film Labyrinth, in which he starred.
(3) At San Francisco’s first fully automated restaurant, meals appear in little glass cubbies, just 90 seconds after customers order and pay on wall-mounted iPads.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Computerized cubbies at Eatsa, San Francisco.
(5) The company admits it employs a small kitchen staff, and one employee is present in the front of the house, answering questions about how to order and dodging questions about what’s going on behind the wall of magic cubbies.
(6) The moment before the meal appears, the see-through display screen that fronts the cubbies goes black for the few seconds when you might catch sight of the hand that feeds you.