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...Jennifer Turnock: a butterflier from Elkhart, Ind., who could emerge as a good one by season...
...industry resurgence has meant a boom for the town of Elkhart, Ind. (pop. 41,300). A carriage-building center at the turn of the century, northern Indiana was later home to such automakers as Studebaker and Auburn. Today the defunct car companies have been supplanted by more than 30 camper, trailer and motor-home makers, who accounted for 37% of last year's U.S. production. In the past year, they have hired 4,000 new workers...
...Coachmen Industries, the Elkhart area's largest manufacturer, sales shot up 80% last year to $478 million, and profits nearly quadrupled. During the first three months of 1984 profits leaped another 89%, even though production was restricted by a shortage of chassis on which motor-home bodies are mounted. Complains Chairman Thomas Corson: "Detroit can't send us enough, so we're starting to use Toyota chassis...
...Atlantic in December 1981, had nearly cost him his job. Now he not only admitted talking to Barrett about the "pilfered" Carter debate book but conceded that he boasted on the very day of the debate about having used it. In a story buried on page 15 of the Elkhart, Ind., Truth newspaper, Stockman, then a Congressman from Michigan, was reported to have told a luncheon audience in Cassopolis, Mich., just what Carter would say in the debate and how Reagan would answer. He was quoted as saying he had used a "pilfered copy of the briefing book" to rehearse...
Yvonne Ransel Elkhart...