Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step up shelter production from 100 to 250 units a day. In Cincinnati, the Bendix Corp. reported a 1.000% increase in orders for its "Family Radiation Kits"-fallout-detection devices. In California's San Fernando Valley, Joseph Nathanson, a Los Angeles public relations man, gravely watched a flatbed trailer truck thunder down Sepulveda Boulevard carrying a giant, tar-coated concrete cylinder with apertures for vent pipes and doors. "It gives you a jolt, seeing that shelter going down the road," he said. "A year ago I'd have snickered...
...faculty jobs at South African universities go begging (19 at important Natal University alone), and the reasons for the discrepancy between supply and demand are widely understood. Says Jacobus Petrus Duminy, Vice Chancellor of Cape Town University: "It's as though [the educators] are cooped up in a trailer tied to an engine of fate driven by a force with which they are powerless to communicate...
...number of old campers. Kenneth Froslid of the Chicago bureau, a camper since the age of five, originally proposed the cover after camping out on an 8,200-mile cross-country Volkswagen tour with his wife. He has since graduated to the amenities of an Apache Chief camping trailer. Bob Wood, who filed from San Francisco, makes backpacking trips into the Yosemite, bearing a 35-lb. pack, catching trout for food, and using a passing stream as his refrigerator. He likes to arrive in the hills at nightfall, sleeping out before setting forth in the morning, as the easiest...
Ravens & Wild Roses. Not quite so uncompromising in their attitude were two New Mexico physicians and their families who camped last week at Vallecito, in Colorado's San Juan National Forest. Hemotologist Samuel Painter, who had camped in the rough before, this time had a rented trailer for his wife and four children because he wanted to save his pregnant wife the heavy work of tent camping. Cardiologist James Conrad and his wife and two children were using a station wagon and a tent. Neither family fished, but they sailed and hiked. Bird Lover Painter delighted in helping...
...also testing a new "outmount" drive unit that combines the best features of an inboard engine (lower center of gravity, less fuel consumption) with the good points of an outboard (the drive shaft kicks up if it strikes an obstruction, can be raised for beaching and loading aboard a trailer...