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Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum is strictly from Eastern urb and suburb, but went into training for the story by camping out at Jackson Hole, Wyo., and some of his delight rubs off in the telling. Among correspondents who supplied material for the story are a number of old campers. Kenneth Froslid of the Chicago bureau, a camper since the age of five, originally proposed the cover after camping out on an 8,200-mile cross-country Volkswagen tour with his wife. He has since graduated to the amenities of an Apache Chief camping trailer. Bob Wood, who filed from...
...work. In recent weeks, Allied also supplied a cotton candymaker for a children's party, searched for a woman's contact lenses in vacuum cleaner dust, drew up estimates for the cost of building a pool and shelter-house for a duck that a twelve-year-old camper brought back from camp...
Some German campers travel in a style worthy of Europe's richest new rich, but most boast of how far they can go at the least expense. On the average, a camper's vacation only costs $40 for two weeks in the sun. One Frankfurt camper spent ten days in Italy. He brought along gas for his motor scooter, canned food, which he cooked over a portable stove with German canned heat, a tent, blankets, and other necessities for independent outdoor living. Cost of his trip: nothing. Said he: "The only thing I took from Italy was water...
Crucial Phrase. German business has been quick to respond to the new camper market. For $300 the camper can pick up a Barnum-sized four-room tent with picture window and carport. Gadget-minded campers can now provide themselves with burglar alarms which are attached to tent flaps, and miniature fences to isolate their area from the common crowd...
...most of the 50,000 nature-lovers who spilled over Germany's borders last week, money was more to be cherished than spent. Though most German campers are monolingual, they can rattle off one phrase in three or four languages: "Mister, would you mind if I set up my tent on your property?" It is a highly important phrase, because by using it, the German camper saves the 25? charged by official camping grounds...