Word: coast-to-coast
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...judge, of course, is Attorney General-designate Griffin Bell. The cause of Tarver's outrage was the coast-to-coast outcry over the fact that Bell and two other top-level Jimmy Carter appointees belong to Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, which bars membership to blacks and Jews (the other appointees: Atlanta Banker Bert Lance, Carter's proposed budget director, and Houston Businessman Charles Duncan Jr., a former Atlanta resident who was nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense). Bell and Lance have promised to resign, but at week's end Duncan...
...GUMBALL RALLY is a car stunt comedy about an informal but highly ritualized coast-to-coast race. The competition, organized by a bored businessman (Michael Sarrazin), is joined by a loose freemasonry of friends, rivals and fellow speed freaks. Among them: a libidinous Italian race driver (Raul Julia), a Pennsylvania housewife (Susan Flannery), a crazed motorcyclist (Harvey Jason), even a mechanic and his obstreperous girl friend (nicely played by Lazaro Perez and Tricia O'Neil) who yell and argue from the Hudson River to the Pacific. The course is the superhighway system of America. The object...
...biker who has had a week of special training. Even for those who choose to cruise Bikecentennial's route in solitude, reservations, insurance, physical examinations and advance deposits are required. Bikecentennial prices for those who go coast-to-coast: from $75 if you are alone, buy your own food and sleep under the star-spangled skies to $965 for coast-to-coast groupies who want prepaid meals and real beds at night. Reports from the trail put the average total cost per day at about...
...through dusty Kansas cornfields and up testing Appalachian ascents. Yet only 5% of the 4,300 people who have hit the trail since it opened May 14 have dropped out before finishing at least one of the designated 900-mile segments. Last week the first groups of cyclists going coast-to-coast passed each other at Pueblo, Colo...
...mellow baritone "Good evening, everybody" and sonorous "So long until tomorrow" reached a cumulative audience once estimated at more than 100 billion. When not at the mike, he found time to write more than 50 books and build a communications corporation-Capital Cities-that controls a coast-to-coast string of radio and TV stations, several newspapers and Fairchild Publications, Inc. Apart from mentioning a brief skiing vacation and continuing work on his TV series, Lowell Thomas Remembers, the unretiring newsman refused to comment on his future. The reason: "People hear what you're planning and steal...