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...Dayton?" calls a driver from the cab of his camper. His buddy pauses before slamming shut the tailgate of his trailer. "Nope," he drawls. "I'm gonna take a breather. See you in Memphis...
...major enterprises are already flourishing. One is a moving company headed by Pete Diaz, 29, who grew up in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem and began mainlining heroin at eleven. He learned to drive a tractor-trailer rig when he was twelve, and served five years for armed robbery before he turned 21. At first, Diaz says, "four of us rented trucks from Hertz and moved our friends. Now we've built up to twelve people, the family owns a van, and we cover any job within 100 miles." An equally succcessful member is Andy Nikolatos, 23, who comes...
...their mobile homes. By contrast, mobile-home pads at most other comfortable parks, including Carlsberg's, rent for $45 to $95 monthly. But the young builder senses that, increasingly, elaborate facilities are where the money is parked. "We are appealing to an entirely different person than the old trailer park did," he says. "We want people who can afford more, people who go into a park for its social orientation...
...eight policemen, normally preoccupied with nothing more serious than ski-equipment thefts (the biggest crime category), struggle with monumental parking jams. There is also a shortage of moderate-income housing for Vail's 2,000 ski instructors, waiters and salespeople, many of whom live in a trailer camp a dozen miles away. The town manager, Terrell Minger, 30, cannot afford to buy a place in Vail on his $21,000 salary...
...reporters and cameramen who traipsed to Camp David to cover the presidential Cabinet shuffles. Camp David's grounds are off limits to the press, who were herded by Marine guards and concertina wire into a sapling-fenced enclosure called "the duckblind" or farther away in an overcrowded press trailer. After newspapers published pictures similar to this one of reporters shivering under a plastic sheet in a chilly rain to phone in their stories, a press aide had more telephones installed in the trailer. Still, there were no chairs, no coffee or doughnuts or cigarettes to be purchased on Nixon...