Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state and national parks and forests; private campsites, with such names as Jellystone Park and Winnebago Springs, had a higher population density than a Manhattan city block. "Roughing it in the wilderness," as a Delaware state recreation official put it, "is when the air conditioning breaks down." In Wisconsin last July 4th weekend, 16,000 state-operated campsites were 99.7% occupied. Asked if he knew of an unspoiled area for a backpacking trip, a veteran outdoorsman in Michigan replied, "You're asking that question 100 years too late...
Another semitough way to see the back country is to bicycle through it. Vermont Bicycle Touring in Bristol has devised 74 different rural bike trips lasting from a weekend to 16 days and suited to riders of all degrees of proficiency; nights are spent in small country inns. Wisconsin has two of the nation's finest rural bike trails: the Elroy-Sparta (30 miles long) and the Sugar River (23 miles), which are laid out on paved-over railbeds and are barred to cars and motorcycles; the grade never exceeds...
...bought control of Falstaff for $10 million. Other 1975 brewery turnovers: Theodore Hamm Co. of St. Paul, once tenth in the industry, bought out by Washington's expanding Olympia Brewing Co.; and C. Schmidt & Sons of Philadelphia, currently being taken over by G. Heileman Brewing Co. of Wisconsin, which also brews Blatz and some 30 other brands...
Jackie and Carle have been rowing together at the University of Wisconsin, and they both look and talk kind of like large cheerleaders--Carle is six feet one inch, and Jackie not much shorter--only they're tougher. Jackie is blonde and a little pouty, Carie dark and sleek and a little more sophisticated--she rows with large silver hoop earrings dangling from her ears. They've become breakfast regulars at Tommy's--another group, led by Nancy Storrs, drives over to "The House of 'Cakes" every morning, and today Claudia Schneider got a bunch of people...
...brought along her mail and was reading some of it out loud to Jackie and a couple of other rowers who were at Tommy's, none of whom had been lucky enough to get any letters of their own. The men's coxswain and the women's coxswain at Wisconsin had gotten married, and the coach had gone to the wedding and gotten all excited and jumped up and down, Carle announced. Mail gets to be very important when there's nothing at all to do except row and eat and sleep and row again--no T.V., no radio...