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Jackson kept growing tenser. A gasoline bomb exploded in the carport of an N.A.A.C.P. leader. Negro leaders walked out of a meeting with city officials after a misunderstanding with Mayor Allen Thompson about their demands. The Negroes prepared for more demonstrations, and Mayor Thompson ordered a hog-wire enclosure, able to handle 10,000 prisoners, set up on the state fairgrounds...
...dancing, and classes in ceramics and art. The well-fitted trailers-preferably called mobile homes-were leashed to water lines and TV lines, phone lines and plumbing lines (no clotheslines, thanks to built-in washers and dryers). Most of them were attached to cabanas and ramadas (a kind of carport). Some were three-bedroom affairs. All had living rooms and fully equipped kitchens. All had wheels that were decorously hidden behind shrubbery, brick walls, or flowers...
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...
...upon and made a style. There is hardly a modern house in the U.S. that does not owe at least some of its features to him. Among Wright innovations: the split-level living room, the open plan for house interiors, the corner picture window, modern radiant floor heating, the carport (he coined the name...
Addlescence. In Segoville, Texas, Mae Hancock went to police and asked them to arrest her two boys because "I can't do a thing with them," the cops went to the Hancock house, found Warden, 54, and Guy, 52, sprawled out drunk in the carport...