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...carpeting, a floral arrangement in the front window, wind chimes at the door and an illuminated sign hanging out the front. But the Sutherlands have no permanent zip code. No phone lines. They pay no property taxes. Their pad has wheels. It's a 35-ft., $65,000 Fleetwood Southwind, one of the thousands of recreational vehicles, or RVs, that Americans are calling home. "Oh, we have a home, all right," Sutherland likes to quip. "It just depends on where we are at the moment...
...White House, where W. Richard Howard, an assistant to then Presidential Counsel Charles W. Colson, fired off a memo to John Dean asking him to go to bat for Rodgers at the Justice Department. Rodgers was never prosecuted. He is currently recuperating from a heart attack at Southwind, his estate on Maryland's Eastern Shore, but expects to be subpoenaed in the Agnew investigation soon...
These Southerners have all spent years reporting specific problems of the South. Clark Porteous, our Memphis stringer and top reporter for the Press-Scimitar, is a New Orleans-born grandson of a Confederate artilleryman, a Nieman Fellow (1937) and author of Southwind Blows, a novel about a Mississippi lynching. "The book showed the horror of lynching," says Porteous, "but it also tried to show all the spokes of the wheel, to tell the complexity of the South's traditional problem." Porteous considers himself a part of "the South's new generation"; he is pleased, but far from satisfied...
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