Word: inde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plainfield, Ind...
...permitted more Americans to indulge their love of the open road, sales of recreational vehicles spurted to $ 1.6 billion last year, from a mere $87 million in 1961. Within the next six years, sales are expected to top $3 billion. Today, more than 800 companies, many clustered around Elkhart, Ind., now make recreational vehicles. Most are still run by their founders, a group of entrepreneurs who have made millions merely by buying the necessary parts and assembling campers and trailers. Some of the nation's largest corporations, however, are also getting into the business. Boise Cascade, W.R. Grace...
...hazy streets of Gary, Ind., cluttered a year ago with knots of unemployed steelworkers, now are nearly deserted as steel production continues to surge. While food prices climbed, farmers at least could savor the rise-and the fact that they are enjoying a 50% increase in federal subsidies this year over last. If the nation's urban ghettos were as scabrous as ever, they were mostly peaceful. In Harlem's 26th Precinct, Patrolman Jim Toner observed with some bewilderment: "The tension is much less here than it used to be. It's been a very mild summer...
West Lafayette, Ind...
...Dancing is a modest tribute to the art of storytelling, it is a genuflection before the institution of the free library. When the author, a 42-year-old Evansville Ind., housewife, decided to write a novel, her first order of business was to figure out what kind would least display her ignorance. She had no degree, had never held a decent job, traveled, flown in an airplane, or so much as taken a vacation. But she was a magpie reader especially of fiction and history and she knew her way around a library. To wit: the setting of Cat Dancing...