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...sites proliferating from California to Maine, as the following color pages show, are modern amusement centers in choice resort areas. On these spreads, hardship means going without a six-channel cable TV set or a phone hookup-both of which are likely to be available for a small fee. Such basics as running water, electricity and sewage lines are taken for granted; athletic facilities and organized social activities are common. Says Maxine Bessemer, who owns a motor home and lot on Florida's Nettles Island, the largest commercial campground in the country: "I don't know what...
Space at Nettles Island can be rented for $7.50 a day (the cable TV hook-up is 50? extra); the fee includes use of the tennis courts, saunas and gym. The 30-ft.-by-60-ft. lots can be bought, condominium style, for $7,000 ($14,000 for waterfront lots). Owners are assured of use of their plot when they want it and can divide rental income with the management at other times...
...occurred to me that the doctor-related recipients of a doctor's good care should consider "reimbursing"' him by donating a sum equivalent to the customary fee to the doctor's favorite charity...
American Express's reservations system has hooked up its computer with the six national parks, which attract campers at a rate of 2.5 million each season, and the computer will sort everyone out, providing a guaranteed spot for a fee of $1.50 apiece. Clutching their printouts, campers will be able to drive past the SORRY-NO VACANCIES signs and the lines of disorganized tourists waiting vainly to get at the great, jampacked outdoors. "Eventually," says Acadia National Park Superintendent Keith Miller, "a mobile society has to face the need for certain restrictions on its mobility...
According to the trial indictment, the doorman and the other eight defendants regularly collected up to 100 zloties from prostitutes as a sort of entrance fee to the hotel's cafe and up to 500 zloties for entry into the hotel itself. For "systematically demanding bribes," the defendants face maximum sentences of 10 years in prison. Meanwhile, life goes on at Warsaw's leading hotels. At the Bristol last week, TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott reports, he was propositioned three times by phone from the lobby before he had time to unpack in his room...