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When Dan Campbell, 35, who operates out of Cypress, Calif., and Wife Robin, 30, haul high-technology gear across the country for Bekins Van Lines, they haul a little high-tech luxury for themselves in their $35,000, 120-in.-long cabin. While on the road, Robin prepares broiled chicken and fresh steamed vegetables in the kitchenette complete with a microwave oven. The thick pile carpet and acoustically padded walls are easily cleaned with the central vacuum- cleaning system. After dinner she may watch a prerecorded episode of Dallas on their VCR and remotecontrolled color TV. When...
...sort of circuit-riding parish in this part of Florida. Mass was celebrated in whatever shelter could be secured, and there was one odd period when the priest said Mass at the Pompano Park Harness Raceway. Then, ten years ago, the diocese found 4½ acres along the Cypress Creek Canal, in an area of warehouses-Waterbed City is just across the street-and a little church was constructed. It has a coral pulpit...
...Derain to Collioure-as a stint among the marbles of Rome had been to their 18th century forebears. Provence presented itself as a museum of the prototypes of strong sensation: blazing light, red earth, blue sea, mauve twilight, the flake of gold buried in the black depths of the cypress; archaic tastes of wine and olive, ancient smells of dust, goat dung and thyme, immemorial sounds of cicada and rustic flute-"O for a beaker full of the warm South!" In such places, color might take on a primary, clarified role. Far from the veils and nuances of Paris...
Crouched beneath a gentle morning sun last week, Florida Governor Bob Graham grinned broadly and, with a muddy splash, dropped a baby cypress tree into a hole filled with water on the bank of the Kissimmee River. As he shoveled soil on the roots, a group of ebullient environmentalists crowded around him, laughing and applauding. "This is the heart that pumps the blood," said Graham of the river. "Our goal is, by the year 2000, the water system will look and function more as it did in the year 1900 than it does today." And with the turnaround, naturalists predict...
...plaque, stolen once before, was securely attached with six leg bolts. One end of the bolts was screwed to the back of the cypress-carved wood, and the other end was embedded into the brick...