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...Graceland visitors are not crackpots who claim that Elvis is really alive and hiding out in Grand Rapids, Mich. They are simply vacationers, many of them on their way to Florida, whom Graceland communications manager Todd Morgan characterizes as "Mom and Dad and the kids stopping off in their RVs...
...RVs are going into overdrive once again after hitting a rough patch. Sales reached 526,300 in 1978, but then were stalled by rising interest rates and fears of a gasoline shortage. Only 181,400 were sold in 1980, and half the manufacturers and dealers folded. But last year sales were back...
Though they still cannot be considered economy vehicles, new motor homes are more fuel efficient than earlier models. Riverside, Calif.-based Fleetwood, the industry leader with 20% of the market, cut excess weight and restyled exteriors to make its RVs more aerodynamic and squeeze more miles out of a gallon of fuel. The company's 27-footers now get 15 m.p.g. on the highway at 50 m.p.h., twice the mileage of a decade ago. Winnebago (1983 sales: $239 million) developed a front-wheel-drive model powered by a Renault diesel engine. One version, called the LeSharo, gets...
Toward dusk, their small boats go whumping across lakes and bays, rooster-tailing on fierce twin-100 outboards. Caravans of eight-miles-to-the-gallon RVs start homing off the interstates, their occupants damply chilled in the air conditioning, bathed in Dolly Parton from the tape deck. In shopping malls, supermarkets the size of National Guard armories feel as cold as meat lockers; housewives in pedal pushers go Brrrr as they load their carts with food encased in a wealth of nonreturnable glass, metal and paper. They shake their heads as they pay what the check-out computer demands...
SPARTAN: the big-punch, long-range missile in the overall anti-missile defense system called Sentinel. Spartan would be installed at most of the ABM sites as the first line of defense, its mission being to intercept attacking RVs (reentry vehicles, or warheads) while they are still above the atmosphere, hundreds of miles from their targets. Spartan performs a regional, or "area-defense," role...