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Note 31: Coate, "When Something Belongs to Everybody," in Fike, Voices from The Farm, 111. back

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The concentration of men skilled in auto mechanics — and enculturated into the mystique of the automobile — contributed to this development as well. 53 Coate contends that the development of this subculture was symptomatic of the larger causes of the commune's eventual decollectivization.

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Note 54: Coate, "When Something Belongs to Everybody," in Fike, Voices from The Farm, 113. back

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According to John Coate, the men of the motor pool drifted beyond the pale when their noontime touch-football games generated heated quarrels.

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Note 52: Coate, "When Something Belongs to Everybody," 113. back

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Note 36: Vow of poverty, 9; on the acquisition of the Plenty headquarters, see John Coate, "Birthing the Bronx Center," 122; for an account of a cash windfall, see Henry Goodman, "I Had Serious Regrets Then," 132; all in Fike, Voices from The Farm.

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The first straw boss of the motor pool selected the members of his crew at what member John Coate describes as "a seminal men's meeting" held at the horse barn. 31

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In this morning's issue of The Times, Simon Barnes writes on the scandalous development proposed at Coate Water just outside Swindon.

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So instead I shall refer you to the Save Coate group.

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The development at Coate, and the way in which it has been stitched up, is nothing short of criminal.

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