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...trailer subculture has evolved a bullet-shaped camper that is bidding to become the Cadillac of recreational vehicles. The air-conditioned, 25-ft.-long Discoverer, built by Detroit's Rectrans Inc., sells for $16,000, features a pile-carpeted living room with built-in television and stereo, a wood-paneled bedroom and a bathroom complete with toilet, shower, sink, closet and medicine chest. The kitchen boasts a refrigerator-freezer, stove, roomy cabinets and sink. So far, a swimming pool is not available as an accessory...
...campers, yachtsmen, private-airplane pilots and snowmobilers, a company named Relevant Products Inc. of Louisville has come up with the Safe-T-Cell, a compact 2-lb. super-first-aid kit. Crammed into a sturdy polyethylene cylinder are tourniquets, bandages, antiseptics, adhesive tape, aspirin, rescue blanket, waterproof matches, nylon cord, a compass and even chocolate. Marine, aircraft and camper versions sell for $13.95; a more elaborate marine model, which also contains a mouth-to-mouth resuscitator, goes...
...Ralph Nader would liken a pickup truck carrying a camper box around a tight turn to a circus elephant with one leg raised? Or another pickup in an S-turn to a round-bottomed dinghy during a squall? Who at the same time would warn that baby shampoos, their ads notwithstanding, will probably sting the eyes of some infants? Or declare that the most persistent cheating at supermarket meat counters is plain, old-fashioned short-weighting...
Dangerous Toothbrush. Much of the time, CR's evaluations are the kind that manufacturers would prefer not to read anywhere. Automobiles often take a buffeting. CR's August issue reports several safety deficiencies in four pickup trucks tested for use with camper boxes and suggests that it would be better to pack a tent in the trunk...
...mattresses, crawled at night into tents of orange, green, yellow and blue canvas. The more spiritual-minded jammed into an Indian meditation tent. Attitudes toward the music ban varied. "When you alienate so many people, the revolution just picks up steam," said Pat Coons, 23, a camper from Connecticut. Waving to friends on a ski T-bar, a California youth expressed the dominant mood: "This whole thing is playing it lazy-it's a place to pass a smooth couple of days." Nevertheless, in its final days, the festival turned tedious for many as occasional rain and lack...