Word: camper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Camp Carroll, a former U.S. Marine outpost ten miles south of the DMZ, 3rd Division troopers mutinied. After three days of brutal shelling, their commander ordered a gradual retreat; they wanted to surrender. Luckily for the U.S. adviser, Lieut. Colonel William Camper, a passing helicopter heard his radio call: "They're running up a white flag! I'm leaving!" Camper was picked up, along with a couple of the soldiers who wanted to retreat too. But the unlucky base commander was reportedly tied up by the remaining mutineers and turned over...
...fastest growing segment of the business is the pickup truck, which retails for $2,800 to $4,300. Once bought mainly by farmers, it has benefited from America's growing lust for outdoor recreation. The open-bodied truck is now a recreational vehicle, often topped by a camper, that carries or tows snowmobiles, bikes, and dune buggies to the mountains, plains and deserts. A recent Ford survey shows that 57% of all light trucks are used partly for recreation. Indeed, Dodge is setting up a squad of traveling repair vans that will service disabled trucks that are Isolated...
...SHOW began sometime around 10:30 p.m. Outside New York's Madison Square Garden on a windy and cold January 28th, some four thousand people waited to press into the Felt Forum as some five thousand piled out. The big yellow neon board billed "Yevtushenko" and, under his name, "Camper and Trailer Show." This was the second performance of the largest poetry reading anyone had ever attempted to stage in America...
...also is interested in more emotional issues, notably the environment (he is an ardent camper and skier). It was Reuss who breathed life into the 1899 federal law regulating waste disposal in navigable rivers, and turned it into a modern-day antipollution measure. Still, Reuss is more at home discussing the fine points of currency-exchange rates with European bankers and statesmen or reading a book. When Nixon agreed in talks with French President Georges Pompidou to devalue the dollar, Reuss quoted the remark made by Henry IV after that cynical monarch converted to Catholicism in order to gain...
...sworn statements buttressed with lie-detector tests, De Louette said that Fournier (the name is an alias) recruited him to smuggle the heroin last December. Using money given to him by Fournier, De Louette bought the camper, then drove to Pontchartrain, outside Paris. There another man delivered the heroin and helped hide it inside the car. De Louette arranged for shipment of the car and flew to New York. After his arrest, he asked for help from a staff member of the French consulate. De Louette did so, he said, because Fournier had given him the name...