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...months. It was a voyage of discovery for Tim. "For the surfing scene, I just had to try it myself," he says. "And I grew to hate those half-pint kids who kept zipping by me while I missed every wave. In Yosemite National Park, my rented pickup camper was surrounded by bears as soon as I arrived, which is why I didn't get more interviews. The next morning I picked up two hippies with a dog named Kilo...
David Manber's scenario, an unstable amalgam of early Arthur Miller and late James M. Barrie, gives the frustrated boy soliloquies that would make Peter Pan queasy. He calls his dog "noble steed," plays mincing bullfighter to a pickup truck, decorates a barn with painted flowers-and finally floats off to war. But all is probably well. Presented with such a pixie, the Army could do nothing but shrug its shoulders and issue a medical discharge...
...success did not come easily. The Forest City Development Committee, appointed by the town to woo industry, raised $50,000 by selling stock locally. With those funds, the committee refurbished an old pumpkin cannery and began making so-called camper coaches: portable dwellings that can be mounted on pickup trucks. The venture failed, and the factory was forced to close. Finally, John K. Hanson, a Forest City furniture-store owner, bought up the stock at a reduced price and reopened the plant. In 1964, misfortune struck again when a fire gutted the old building. Undaunted, Hanson borrowed $360,000 from...
...truth about this aspect of the incident, but most evidence indicates that he was, if for no other reason than that an affair in the night seemed totally out of character for Mary Jo (see box, overleaf). Says Esther Newberg: "Mary Jo was not a stranger or a pickup. She was like a member of the family." On the other hand, says a longtime Kennedy watcher, "one can also sense that Kennedy, jovial, relaxed, perhaps high, might have said: 'Come on, Mary Jo, and let's have a look at the ocean...
...retaliation, Chinese merchants have already raised prices on many goods to Malay buyers and cut off paja (credit), by which many a Malay farmer buys seed for his next crop. More ominous still, the conflict, at first only an urban affair, is spreading to the countryside. Chinese-owned pickup trucks have ceased collecting the fishing catch from the Strait of Malacca. The eagerly awaited season for durian, a large and delectable strong-scented fruit grown only in Asia, is now at its peak. In any other year, Malay farmers would make small fortunes on this rare fruit. Last week durians...