Word: winnebagos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there, scrambling out of the Winnebago and hitting the ground in full gallop, is the candidate himself. So fast does he move that he is inside the store before the storekeeper can stir, blinking in the dimness and striding toward the storekeeper with his hand out, and the storekeeper is shaking his hand as he thinks yes, he is like his pictures, a squat, fat, funny owl of a man, straight black hair combed back from a ruler-edge part, Coke-bottle glasses betting the tiny eyes, the wide, grinning mouth jutting teeth above the weak chin...
...press any assurances that they would not be subject to arrest if they entered the site. One television camera crew covered the events with gas masks hanging in sacks from their shoulders. The Real Paper staff--a former vanguard of the counterculture--appeared less concerned. They arrived in a Winnebago mobile home covered inside with thick pile carpeting and empty Budweiser cans...
...marketed by the Itasca division of Winnebago Industries, Inc., the Forest City, Iowa, motor-home makers...
Heli-Homes are made, and were conceived, by an early whirly enthusiast named Fred Clark, 45, whose headquarters are in Sanford. Since 1965 Clark has been adapting helicopters under license for crop spraying, airline connections and Government use,.After long experimentation, he and Winnebago agreed that the S-58 Sikorsky was the best-suited chopper for Heli-Home conversion. Clark has already bought 56 surplus Sikorskys for H-H use, from as far away as Germany and Israel. Each of the craft will be rebuilt from the hull up under strict FAA supervision...
...Winnebago, which at this stage is still demonstrating the Heli-Home, has dropped it into 10 major cities from Los Angeles to Miami-to universal amaze. For the man who has everything, or the company that wants something more, the Heli-Home may indeed outclass the private jet as a practical, all-purpose, tax-deductible vehicle that is not just a toy. Or, for $10.000 a week, plus pilot's salary, plus gas (75 gal. per hour), the party thrower or corporate showman can rent an H-H and be up and away...