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...ranchers with unused land. They pay the company a fee of $8,900, plus $300 a year and 8% ot whatever they charge campers-a price that ranges from $2 to $6 per night. The fee can rise to $100 a week if the customer wants to rent a trailer, which some franchise holders offer as well. What KOA gives the franchise operator is national advertising, a toll-free telephone-reservations service, listing in its Kampground Directory and rigidly enforced standards. Minimum facilities include electrical hookups, sewage disposal, a grocery store and hot showers. KOA also gives generous amounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Cashing In on Campers | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...March 1968, McCann was working on a Vietnam solidarity campaign in London, and went to Derry "for a fortnight's vacation." A Catholic family was about to be evicted from their house trailer by the Protestant government. Ten or twelve people dragged the trailer on to a road and blocked traffic for forty-eight hours. They forced the mayor to house the family...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Slouching Towards Bethlehem | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...sole tribal commerce of the Hopis is a trailer court and a few arts-and-crafts shops. Yet the hope of the Hopis lies in their determination to improve their condition. They teach their children to value schooling so highly that the average daily attendance in their elementary schools is a surprising 90% ?a rarity among Indians. A score of older youngsters take a bus each day and make a 96-mile round trip to attend high school. Each day 50 adult Hopis get up at 5 a.m. to board a yellow bus and ride 65 miles to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Angry American indian: Starting Down the Protest Trail | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

There are three types of drugs used on horses- stimulants, pain-killers, and tranquilizers. Stimulants are forbidden in every state, but that, of course, does not stop their use. Typically a stranger and a horse in a small trailer arrive at the race track and gets stable permission for a racing season. For several races the horse shows no sign of life and the odds on the animal keep rising. One morning the stranger goes into the horse's stall to pet him, feed him some carrots, and give him "a little help." That afternoon the horse should...

Author: By Jim Morgan, | Title: A Horse Is a Horse, Of Course, Of Course | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

...went out to her dressing room, a little cubbyhole in a trailer parked outside the building. The curtain over the tiny window had a note safety-pinned to it: "Liza Minelli-Junie Moon." Ali found me a pair of bellbottoms. (They were a size...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

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