Word: darts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Ronald Reagan Trust was supposed to be strictly blind, it seems that the Governor took an active interest during his final months in office in the purchase of the Santa Barbara ranch. It was opposed by the financial experts. But, as Dart explains, "he just had to have this one. It was love at first sight." Adds Wilson: "He told us that he always had made money on his real estate and challenged us as trustees to prove that we always had made profitable investments for him. That we couldn't do." At the ranch, Reagan...
...also have a $2.75 fish-and-chips lunch. Some visitors are developing a taste for bagels, but once kosher menus now feature bangers and mash (sausages and mashed potatoes). The Miami News has added a "News from Britain" section and has slapped the British ensign on its vending machines. Dart boards are sprouting like bougainvillea. Rivers of Guinness and Watney's pour through the bars, which are turning into pubs, with additional barmen (and barmaids) to distribute the flood. On sweltering summer days, when the locals huddle around air conditioners, only mad dogs and Englishmen fill the streets...
Supported by about 20 local stores, the assembly put up the front money to have the Pousette-Dart Band and Livingston Taylor play in the new Bright Hockey Center. With only a week to go before the concert, however, the assembly had but 400 people of the 1500 necessary to break even on Spring Weekend Saturday...
...during the rescue, Navy fighter aircraft from the carriers Nimitz and Coral Sea would fly along the Iranian border, ready to dart toward Tehran if the assault party got into trouble. The U.S. planners did not fear Iran's once potent air force. Of the country's 76 advanced F-14 fighters, no more than seven can fly, and none can fire its Phoenix missiles, owing to the lack of maintenance. Iran has 187 operational F-4 fighters, 50 of them near Tehran, but none is equipped for night combat. Moreover, insists a Pentagon official, "we knew where...
...band that people will pay money to see. The choice of a trivial, second rate group of musicians to headline a major concert is baffling. Why, when Brown can attract acts like Little Feat and Elvis Costello, do we have to settle for a nowhere act like Pousette-Dart Band. (Who knows who we will have next time. Petula Clark? Or maybe even Sean Cassidy...