Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said: "Sir Etienne Dupuch, owner and editor of the Tribune [the most influential newspaper in the Bahamas], had called at Government House to tender his respects. Windsor, who was standing just outside the main gate, dismissed Dupuch with the withering comment: 'Colored people to the tradesmen's entrance.' " TIME cites this as an example of the duke's treatment of colored Bahamians...
...roll right out. If the parking site at Paw Paw, Mich., palls, if tornadoes threaten Thunderwoman Park in Iowa, if Oso Ridge, N. Mex., turns out soso, there's always another rallying ground down an Interstate. There, for a few dollars a day, the motor-home owner can hook up to a power line, fill water and fuel tanks, flush out the crud and replenish the refrigerator. The new friends come free...
...drink (the fare runs to beef, beans and Bud). The biggest and most tightly knit group is the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA), which boasts 31,000 dues-paying members ($25 per annum per family) in 130 chapters across the nation. To qualify for membership, a motor-home owner must have a vehicle that is at least 18 ft. long, is "self-contained," meaning that it has an on-board sanitary system, galley and generator, and is built so that an adult can walk upright from driver's seat to back. Some come with multiple color...
FMCA is not for vanners, camper-trailer haulers or owners of the cruder class of recreational vehicles. The distinction is not so much an economic or social delineation as a statement: the esteemed "goose egg" FMCA plaque on the front of a vehicle, be it a mansion of the macadam or a turnpike retirement pad, means that it is a livable, functioning home. Its owner belongs to what may be the largest extended family in America...
...cold, dark January night. John Mendell, 31, and Steve Garcia, 29, both burglars by trade and members of a gang of jewel thieves, creep up to a sprawling ranch-style house in the swank Chicago suburb of River Forest. The owner is vacationing in Florida, and there is $1 million in jewelry inside?jewelry they believe is rightfully theirs. A conversation can be imagined...