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...someone with his head in the clouds, Astronomer Carl Sagan's latest spaced-out undertaking seemed astonishingly down to earth. Having conquered the cosmos, the Johnny Carson Tonight show and the New York Times bestseller list, the flamboyant scientist-cum -showman figured that the only Big Bang left to make was in the world of business. Thus, twelve months ago, Sagan and B. Gentry Lee, a space program manager from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif, began scraping together a $700,000 line of credit from California's Security Pacific National Bank and went into business...
Cronkite's secretary initially said she did not think he would speak, so the Yale senior class secretary contacted the next names on the list--Johnny Carson, Bill Cosby, Russell Baker and Potter Stewart. "They all turned us down before Cronkite's secretary called back to say that he did want to speak," Elizabeth Oestreich, class secretary, said, adding that at one point it looked as though all the invitations would be turned down...
...sounded like the San Diego Chicken in heat," said Johnny Carson of the first TV appearance of the Big Blue Wrecking Crew. Four members of the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers made up the group: Outfielders Jay Johnstone, 35, and Rick Monday, 35, Pitcher Jerry Reuss, 31, and Catcher Steve Yeager, 32. On the Crew's new single-to be released this week-side one's rendition of We Are Champions is bested in sheer painful execution only by the flipside, New York, New York. Admits Yeager: "It took us six hours to record and about 15 hours...
...Settles, 21, of Carson, Calif., was called Bull by his friends. He was a 200-lb. senior running back for the Cal State Long Beach 49ers, good enough to be scouted by the Dallas Cowboys. Ernest Lacy, 22, of Milwaukee, was a very different sort: a skinny unemployed man with a history of mental disorders who sang in a church choir and was sometimes scared of his family's two dogs...
...planes do tend to shape their owners' lifestyle, though. "When your husband asks you out to dinner," says Jan Carlsen, a resident of Cameron Airpark, "you don't have to go to the local Taco Bell; you can go to the Carson City Taco Bell." By plane it would be about a half-hour hop; by car, more than two hours, some of it over difficult mountain roads...