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...Adams does not know where his life is going, and he does not much care for anything. It is a truth that is all the more painful because he is forced to face it by a man whom he feels is his inferior in every way. Frederick Giles of Winnebago Terrace, Ill., graduate of Kansas State and World War II veteran who wears an American flag tie clasp, is also staying at the Rufus Arms. He would be everyone's idea of a silent American, except that he spends his evenings at the hotel bar drinking heavily, flapping...
...predominantly male world of tall tales poker and six-pack camaraderie. Each February, when the ice grows thick enough on lakes in the Northern states whole towns of ice-fishing shacks spring up, complete with telephones, electricity and posted roads-the exurbia-on-ice a Wisconsin's Lake Winnebago had a population of 30,000 last week...
...game itself is only an interlude between the morning celebrations and the victory or consolation sessions held afterward. It is time for nostalgia-not for reliving old games, but for recalling old tailgating lore. For instance, many remember the 1971 event when a couple got married next to their Winnebago camper and began their honeymoon at half time. No weddings occurred this time, but still many were reluctant to leave. "Not everyone can get out of the parking lot at once," slurred one hanger-on who kept it up way past 6 p.m., when even the boys in Joe Tomaszewski...
...this was a great party," says Nick Pavelich, a crane operator who had driven his Winnebago 173 miles from Grand Rapids. "I've heard so much about tailgating I thought just one time I'm going to see one." Nick and his wife Carol, like some others, decided that football tickets were the least important aspect of the day. They and their pals sat in a Winnebago, next to their Grain Belt beer, and watched the Vikings beat the Packers...
...Hansons, at least, remain highly optimistic, and are backing their opinion with money. Winnebago is now spending $10 million to double production capacity to 1,000 vehicles a week, and may even begin to make its own appliances. The company has long cut costs by making almost everything else going into its machines; for example, it makes at a cost of $1.60 each the sun visor that it once bought from an outside supplier for $16. It also is beginning to rent recreational vehicles to people who like the machines but have no place to park or garage them between...