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...pizza-stand proprietor gets his coffeepot going, and chilled citizens begin to line up, hoping to get a grip on the morning. A camper rolls into the parking area, and within 30 seconds after it stops, four men of assorted ages have jumped out, driven two stakes into the grass and started pitching horseshoes. People drag aluminum chairs and cases of beer out of the backs of their cars and lug them over to the lawn that faces the bandstand. Encouraging smells begin to drift from the beef barbecue pit. The day's first Frisbee frizzes across the gray...
Four hours later, Guillaume was driven across the frontier into East Germany in an American-made camper, closely followed by a beige Mercedes. The small convoy dropped its passenger, then quickly returned to the West German border. The release of Guillaume marked the beginning of the largest known spy-swapping operation between East and West since World...
Even with the many solid performances registered by the gridders, the final margin came only because of Michaud's flubbed extra point after Holy Cross' second touchdown, a controlled 88-yd., 17-play drive culminated by Mark Covington's 6-yd. camper. Michaud had hit on a Holy Cross record of 25 consecutive PATs, but Boisture fumbled the snap and the kick veered wide to the left...
That revelation does not cause Kuralt any regrets. For the past 13 years, while his colleagues dashed about pursuing headlines, Kuralt was happily crisscrossing the country in a camper, looking for stories about ordinary life for his On the Road series. "Reporters flying from one city to another on assignment never have time to learn anything about those little clusters of lights in between," says...
...Louisiana Purchase. Each vignette, Kuralt hoped, would provide "a little piece of the jigsaw puzzle that this country is." In sharp contrast to the rest of the news, his stories celebrated qualities of playfulness, compassion, pride, and individual accomplishment. Says he: "I could never nap or read in the camper. I was forever looking out the window, afraid I would miss something...