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...industry resurgence has meant a boom for the town of Elkhart, Ind. (pop. 41,300). A carriage-building center at the turn of the century, northern Indiana was later home to such automakers as Studebaker and Auburn. Today the defunct car companies have been supplanted by more than 30 camper, trailer and motor-home makers, who accounted for 37% of last year's U.S. production. In the past year, they have hired 4,000 new workers...
...covered everything from political conventions to the Viet Nam War, which he supported nearly to the bitter end. By then his oddly incompatible circle of friends came to include both Jazz Guitarist Eddie Condon and Lyndon Johnson. When, nearly 60 and plagued by circulatory ailments, he climbed into a camper and spent three months chugging across the U.S. with his dog, the hit-or-miss quest could have symbolized his life. "I don't belong anywhere," he confessed to a friend...
Some might question the accuracy of this picture of Harvard undergraduate life. But Anderson and her encourage did give the University a glimpse of what television life was like. An army of 40 crew members, 500 extras, five camper vans, six trucks and a catering service appeared throughout the Yard and the Square (Harvard did not allow the network to film interiors so CBS was forced to reconstruct classrooms and dorm rooms at other schools). More than 50 Harvard students got to play pedestrians or crowd members, and several hundred more gawked from the sidelines...
Team player that she is, Ride insists that her participation in the flight, which will pack her into a small, camper-size cabin for a week with four men, is "no big deal." Says she: "I didn't come into the space program to be the first woman in space. I came in to get a chance to fly as soon as I could." Certainly there is nothing intrinsically extraordinary about her achievement. Women have been doing just about everything else in recent years, even piloting jet aircraft as big or bigger than the shuttle. So why not space...
...million advertising campaign, sponsored by the Republican Party, in which the G.O.P. points with pride to its accomplishments and views with alarm the legacy of its Democratic opponents as congressional elections approach. A companion ad shows a congressional elections approach. A companion ad shows a couple dusting off their camper and taking a vacation with friends now that inflation has eased. The ad's tag line: "Republicans are beginning to make things better...