Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wouldn't dream of evaluating the sincerity of Smut Dealer Larry Flynt's conversion to being a Hustler for the Lord [Dec. 5]. But if Flynt has truly become a devotee of the "Big Boy upstairs," all I can say is that there must be some truth in the saying "miracles never cease...
...proprietor discovered the diners' identities, the restaurant's small band immediately struck up the stirring strains of Hava Nagila, the popular Israeli folk song. Said Tal.later: "Can you imagine what it was like for me to hear that song played in Egypt? It was like a dream." Moving about the capital, other Israelis often found themselves the focus of friendly curiosity. Reported TIME Photographer David Rubinger, an Israeli citizen: "My left arm is blue from people pinching me to see if I'm real...
...French live a bleak life together in a buried bunker on the island. Even drinking water must be flown in, along with food and supplies. For sanity's sake the men are rotated frequently to larger French islands. But while they are on Tromelin, they undoubtedly dream about the island's one famous resident: an 18th century female Robinson Crusoe who was washed ashore as the lone survivor of a shipwreck. She subsisted on food that floated in from the wreck, until a passing schooner spotted the bright yellow dress she had hoisted as a distress flag...
...Montreal lumber dealer, Péladeau, 52, worked his way through the University of Montreal law school, bent on becoming a show-business impresario. He abandoned that dream in 1950 to buy a failing bilingual weekly outside Montreal for $1,500. He eventually parlez-voused it into an empire of 20 tacky Canadian newspapers, 22 magazines (most of them sold in the U.S., including the [ikes of Boxing Illustrated and Pioneer West), eight printing plants and an ink-making concern. The firm, Quebecor Inc., had sales last year of $104 million and is listed on the American Stock Exchange...
...afternoon in September 1968. Two ambitious real estate brokers, Donald Schnabel, then 36, and Charles McArthur, then 45, had heard that Saint Peter's might be for sale. As Schnabel and McArthur cased the other buildings in the block, they became possessed of what is almost an impossible dream in modern Manhattan: "assembling" all the parcels so that one mighty building could rise on the site...