Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Largely because of the cup rules about the procurement of cloth, design and sail-cutting talent, this year's series, like so many in the past, was anything but the dramatic duel of titans, the mystic mano a mano on the deep that sailors dream of and the New York Yacht Club ritually invokes. The outcome has been virtually certain since the first leg of the first race, when it was discovered that Australia-mainly because of the poor cut of her jibs-could neither point as high nor go as fast to windward as Courageous...
...always been my dream to come to Harvard on this program," Kunene says...
...Foundation when a boyhood friend of his was granted a fellowship, and ever since, Kunene has longed "to follow my friend to Harvard." But for Kunene, the fourth black journalist allowed by the South African government to participate in the program, it has been a long wait, and his dream must have often seemed remote and unattainable...
...film. For Castro, who lived and went to school in Berkeley, it was like going home again. Says she: "Because we both grew up in California, we had a lot in common. We were both really shy in high school; we talked about all the guys we used to dream about and the clothes we used to wear. We both had a sense of familiarity with being at home in those dry, brown hills-stopping at fast-food places and getting in the car to drive and talk." The two women spent their first day together shopping and running errands...
Small wonder. With unemployment in Mexico now rising above 40%, President Carter's proposal of "amnesty" for many of the 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. might seem like the answer to the impossible dream. Soon, perhaps this week, the Administration will deliver its long-awaited package to Congress in finished form. There it is certain to be the focus of fierce debate. Although the compact, 20-page bill was still being refined last week, its major-and most debatable-feature is the amnesty provision. Many fear that it will only encourage more illegal...