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...bidding to become the Cadillac of recreational vehicles. The air-conditioned, 25-ft.-long Discoverer, built by Detroit's Rectrans Inc., sells for $16,000, features a pile-carpeted living room with built-in television and stereo, a wood-paneled bedroom and a bathroom complete with toilet, shower, sink, closet and medicine chest. The kitchen boasts a refrigerator-freezer, stove, roomy cabinets and sink. So far, a swimming pool is not available as an accessory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Not So Roughing It | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

Eight hundred pages long and two inches thick, the book is an imposing object that should find many uses. It could serve, for instance, as a booster seat for Junior, a wheel chock for the family car, a dead weight that could instantly sink a prosperous 68-year-old author into the East River. Just don't try to read the thing. It isn't easy to transform one of the great creative adventures of human history into a load of bull, but Stone has turned the trick. The only fun his book provides is the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Destroyer | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...certainly does try, he can't seem to rid himself of the preconception that the Archetypal American Woman is The Dutiful Little Homemaker. He begins the piece in Harber's, in fact, by recreating a scenario intended to prove just how sympathetic he is to the plight of the Sink-Chained American Woman...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: The Prisoner of Sexism Jail and Roses | 3/18/1971 | See Source »

...Navy has long been annoyed by the fact that its aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean are being trailed by Soviet cruise missile ships, and with good reason. If war broke out, the Russian vessels could sink the carriers with surface-to-surface missiles before they could launch their aircraft. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. Chief of Naval Operations, disclosed last week that he has assigned patrol gunships on a trial basis to trail the ships that trail his ships. The Asheville-class craft being tested have only 3-in. guns, which can scarcely harass the Soviet ships, and they ride so poorly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Trailing the Trailers | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

...frequently aired was that Pusey and Bok should look outside the Law School for the next dean. "We need a fresh perspective," Doug Castle, a second-year student, said. "And we don't want a carbon copy from the outside either. Someone with fresh ideas is not going to sink the Harvard Law School, but he may give it a few bumps and that could be all it needs...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Law Forum Fails to Resolve Issues | 3/6/1971 | See Source »

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