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...Volkswagen's Camper comes fitted with bunks and a sophisticated assortment of kitchen equipment, sells for $2,973 (plus taxes and shipping); Chevrolet has a similar model, and both Land-Rovers and Ford station wagons are promoted with special camping equipment. There are small house trailers mounted on pickup trucks, also called "campers" (some are available on a you-rent-it basis), which feature refrigerators, butane or propane stoves, utensils, even hot and cold running water, showers, toilets and air conditioners (about $2,100). Farther down on the scale are specially designed tents that fit over the tail gates...
Many of the black leaders, including Nelson Mandela, 42, head of the underground movement, managed to escape the police pickup vans. But as the police had hoped, the leaders were forced into such deep concealment that they lost touch with their black following. Thus, when the strike deadline arrived, confused native office boys, waiters and messengers went to their jobs on schedule almost everywhere. One-third of Johannesburg's black work force stayed at home the first day, halting grocers' deliveries and causing white restaurant managers to suffer the indignity of washing their own dishes; but by next...
Soon he was playing in neighborhood pickup games. "There were the five Yastrzemskis," he recalls, "the Skoniecznys-my mother's brothers-and my mother's cousins, the Jasinskis. Can you imagine a double play going from Skonieczny to Jasinski to Yastrzemski...
More signs of business upturn appeared last week. Housing starts jumped a sharp 10%, marking the third straight monthly rise from the December low. There was a $3.5 billion pickup in personal income to an annual rate of $409.5 billion-the first gain since last October. Retail sales were still up 1% over February, to an $18.1 billion annual rate. Government economists have increased their estimates of the gross national product for the second quarter from a $502 billion-to-$503 billion annual rate to a range of from $505 billion to $510 billion...
...rise, last week were pushing for their best week of the year. What was even more encouraging for manufacturers was the fact that merchants were beginning to reorder. New York's Kirby, Block & Co., which acts as buyer for more than 100 member stores, reported that a quick pickup in new orders followed in spring's steps. "The fast step-up in customer purchasing,'' said Milton J. Greenebaum, Kirby, Block's president, "is revealing many thin spots in inventories. Now retailers are rushing orders aimed at filling these gaps...