Word: tente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just your average mid-America country folk. "But for once. Haggerty adds, these mid-American country folk are the envy of the rest of the Mid west--for this weekend at least. They've got the biggest show in town the NCAA hockey championship has raised its tent...
Farewell to the helicopters, clarion call of the wounded, which open each show Farewell to the Swamp, home of Hawkeye's infamous still, which kept the camp in high spirits Farewell to the mess tent, the only place in camp the refused to patronize...
...small khaki tent that shakes and rocks from the 18-wheelers roaring past on the interstate below, Mike MacKay, 30, cooks instant soup on his hot plate, clears his table on top of a portable toilet and defiantly mutters a solemn vow. "I'm set to do this for two or three years," he says. "My wife and I are determined to get a house." Pitted in a bizarre promotional contest to win an $18,000 mobile home, donated by Love Homes, a Pennsylvania firm, MacKay and two other men have been camping for the past 18 weeks...
...three finalists were picked. All are residents of the Allentown area: MacKay, a house parent at a home for disturbed children; Ron Kistler 25, an unemployed baker; and Dalton Young, 23, an unemployed veteran. They settled onto the platform on Sept. 20. Sponsors gave each one a tent, radio, sleeping bag, portable toilet, telephone and an electronic game. Although they have their own heaters, under the rules they cannot have TVs, alcohol or, with occasional brief exceptions, visitors. Their families hoist up food and water in buckets attached to a rope...
...west, searching for jobs in what they have been told is a booming Sunbelt. But the recession--which sent unemployment soaring from 8.6 percent to 10.8 percent in 1982 alone--has hit down south as well. So the homeless make do as best they can--in the sprawling "Tent City" outside of Houston, under freeway passes in Southern California, in overcrowded church-run shelters. They are like latter-day Okies, but in reverse. Overwhelmingly, today's unemployed drifters come from the industrial Midwest and Northeast; that is, from a part of the country where another factory is shut down just...