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Despite their nomadic ways, motor homers are intensely gregarious people. A great many belong to organizations around the country that stage rallies at which members swap tall tales of the road, expertise and quantities of food and drink (the fare runs to beef, beans and Bud). The biggest and most tightly knit group is the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA), which boasts 31,000 dues-paying members ($25 per annum per family) in 130 chapters across the nation. To qualify for membership, a motor-home owner must have a vehicle that is at least 18 ft. long, is "self-contained...
...Diesel with 59,500 miles on it." "Yeah," interjects the comely Darlene, "when you get to one of these rallies, all you see of your husband is his back end bending over an engine compartment." As bus owners-Darold spent a year furnishing and renovating their Greyhound-the Westbrooks belong to the Southern California chapter of Bus Nuts...
...People's National Airline jet set down at Kingston's airport last week, Jamaica's top government officials were on hand to greet Chinese Vice Premier Keng Piao and his 27-member entourage. The visitor declared that "China and Jamaica both belong to the Third World." Later, at a luncheon given by Democratic Socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley, the handsome, white-haired Chinese leader delivered a now familiar blast at the Americans and the Russians: "The superpowers are racking their brains to divide and sabotage the Third World movement by despicable means, but the nonaligned countries...
...record is still an amazing concoction. In one more or less coordinated outpouring, it brought together songs that seemed to belong in an old British music hall (Sgt. Pepper itself, and When I'm 64), druggie exhortations and psychedelic visions (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds), loving mockery of the middle class (She's Leaving Home), a strange, jingly vision of evil (A Day in the Life...
...dispiriting film, the saddest moments belong to Dudley Moore, who plays a frustrated sex fiend whom Hawn keeps coming across. He is desperate for laughs, and Higgins, is frantic to provide them, but to no-or at least embarrassing avail. Higgins was the author of the popular Silver Streak; if you didn't realize it then, you will surely now understand how great was his debt to resourceful Richard Pryor for saving that similarly noisy and tasteless venture. Higgins should not make a move without...