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...modern plumbing. Because the late John D. Rockefeller Jr. fell in love with the area and set up a nonprofit corporation to provide facilities, visitors now have a wide choice of accommodations, ranging from the richly rustic Jenny Lake Lodge ($40 a day double, with two meals) to a trailer park with water, sewer and electrical connections ($2.25 a day). After-dark activity is limited, but a square dance, movie or concert generally can be found. During the day there is fishing, boating, horseback riding and nature hikes conducted by park rangers, but a favorite pastime of almost everybody...
...original flight plan had directed McDivitt to stay close to the booster, which was the size of a house trailer and was rigged with 2,500,000-candle-power lights so that it could be seen for 300 miles. It was contemplated that White, during his space walk, might touch the trailing booster. If he had, it would have been a significant step toward i rendezvous between two spacecraft...
...screen impersonator of Adolf Hitler in World War II movies (The Devil with Hitler. The Hitler Gang), a onetime vaudevillian (from Springfield, 111.), whose striking resemblance to der Fuhrer caused so much heckling that he ate in his dressing room and spent his nonworking hours alone in a trailer he named Berchtesgaden; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...spoofs are there, though, and the knowledgeable may enjoy picking them out. The trailer truck which pursued Brando down a dark alley in On the Waterfront turns into a garbage truck which swallows victims with its packing mechanism. The same truck later dies the slow death of the Creature from the Black Lagoon...
Mushroom Stem. In Goshen, Ind., Elkhart County Sheriff Woody Caton heard about a tornado on his police radio at home. He ran for his car and drove toward a trailer park directly in the twister's path. He got there just after the tornado passed over. "God, what a sight!" he reported. "It was an unbelievable mess. Ninety-two trailers had been completely leveled. Another dozen were upended. Trailers were ripped from their frames, squashed and twisted. Some were tossed onto the highway. Everyone I saw was covered with blood. There wasn't a thing left...