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...were very compleat anglers. We were compleat with a $300,000, 46-ft. Heli-Home, which consists in effect of an S-58 Sikorsky helicopter mated to a Winnebago motor home. The ultimate in Arvees (recreational vehicles), it is a cross between a magic carpet and a pasha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, the Ultimate Arvee | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...marketed by the Itasca division of Winnebago Industries, Inc., the Forest City, Iowa, motor-home makers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, the Ultimate Arvee | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, the Ultimate Arvee | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...wood body complete with tub, shower, refrigerator, stove, beds and other amenities. Selling price: $12,000. Midas' sales of recreational vehicles jumped from $60 million in 1975 to $106 million in 1976. That is more than half the figure for the giant of the motor-home business, Winnebago Industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Midas Touch | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

Ginny first replays her gropings with Joe Bob Sparks, the imbecile high-school star athlete whose lettered jacket "looked like the rear window of a Winnebago with stickers from every state." From there she moves on to kinky sex with Clem Cloyd, the town hoodlum, and then to a proper Boston women's college, "alma mater of vast battalions of female overachievers." When her prim devotion to the rationalism of Descartes collapses under the onslaught of Nietzsche, she drops out of school and into a lesbian affair with a leathery radical. A communal farm in Vermont claims Ginny next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blue Genes | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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