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Many would-be campers are deterred by the hazards of picking a site, finding drinkable water, sleeping on rib-gouging ground-not to mention the horrors of pitching a tent in a wind. Nowadays, however, the compleat camper can drive right up to the lakeside or forest glade where he plans to spend the night and immediately cook supper, take a shower and bunk down, regardless of the terrain or weather...
...automakers, astonished at the mushrooming market for $3,000-and-up vacation vehicles, surveyed the field and found that most camper trucks are used all year round. Many owners find them ideal for football games: they play cards and drink on the way to the stadium, fix a hot lunch in the parking lot, snooze on the way home. Others use them to eliminate hotel bills on skiing trips; and they make a useful base for a day at the beach with the kids. Nonowners also benefit from camper trucks: today's thoughtful house guest can bring...
Retirement was still five years away, but her admirers were already making plans for the old girl's sunset years. Britain's Holiday Camper Billy Butlin offered $2,800,000 to take her to Penzance, Land's End, Torquay-somewhere on the south coast of England. Cunard Chairman Sir John Brocklebank seemed to have the Caribbean in mind. Wherever she winds up, in Penzance as a floating Holiday Camp, or in the Caribbean as a luxury boatel, the Queen Mary, 26-year-old doyenne of the Cunard fleet, would be in good hands. And besides, getting there...
...almost always in French, and began: "Make a white sauce, stir until ready." Or: "Simmer your leftover grouse for 36 hours and season to taste with duxelles." Irma Rombauer had no idea how to make a white sauce or what duxelles was-even her young lawyer husband, a longtime camper, could cook better than she could-but she set out to find...
...your [July 14] cover story "Ah, Wilderness?" suggests, Daniel Boone would be ashamed of the present-day luxury-laden camper...