Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...documentary film, The Treaty No Panamanian Signed, Roosevelt's Administration received inside help from Envoy Bunau-Varilla, who was not a Panamanian but a Frenchman. Bunau-Varilla, it turned out, was less interested in the well-being of the newborn country than in the realization of his years-old dream: completion of the canal...
...integrity of national boundaries, v. self-determination by individual provinces or tribal groups. The Ethiopians are resolved to retain the territory they acquired during a century of expansion. The Eritreans, whose land was an Italian colony until 1941, are fighting for independence; the Somalis are pursuing their dream of uniting the various Somali homelands under one flag. But these conflicts also have international significance. The Horn of Africa, lying beside the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the oil routes between the Persian Gulf and Europe, is of enormous strategic importance to the superpowers...
...portraits of everybody's favorite collie, Lassie, the sixth descendant of the original, who about to star in a new movie. In Scavullo's opinion Lassie is very well groomed and a sal looker, "right up there ith Barbra Streisand." The dog also a photographer's dream. You don't have to worry Dout clothes, makeup or hair," says Scavullo. "Everything is taken care...
...only 14,500 members; today there are 55,000. The Federal Aviation Administration estimates that more than 7,000 homemade planes are now flying and that another 7,000 are under construction in basements, garages and backyards. While many of the builders are fulfilling the dream of Icarus, some are simply saving money. A Pitts aerobatic biplane that regularly costs $34,000, for instance, can be assembled from a kit for $20,000. For the more ambitious, there are plans that sell for as little as $135. Says Paul Poberezny, president and founder of the EAA: "The average person would...
...hardly a typical teen-ager's dream vacation. One thousand two hundred and fifty students were jammed together in sweltering, un-airconditioned dorms in the 101° F. Florida heat. There was all the excitement of a library reading room at high noon: teen-agers hunched in corners, muttering over dog-eared textbooks or stacks of index cards. The prevailing sense of humor was as old as the Roman hills: bantering buttons with such slogans as DA MI OSCULUM LATINE LOQUOR (Kiss me, I speak Latin) and ATLAS IS TOO STONED TO CARE...