Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California Dream...
...worked! We've fooled the rest of the country. During the '60s, when untold millions migrated to California in search of the Golden State dream [July 18], we longtime California residents began to realize that our beautiful state was being devastated by out-of-state foreigners. So we started an unspoken and subliminal campaign to discourage people from relocating here. Thank you, Mr. DeVoss, for informing the rest of the world that California truly is a miserable place to live...
...J.F.K.'s heroic part in the survival of his crew became a legend that contributed notably to his political career. When young Michael learned of an Australian effort to find and hoist up the remains of PT109, he set off to meet with the adventurers. His special dream: to see artifacts-or maybe even the hulk itself-installed some day in the new Kennedy Library...
...surface, such a venture seems nothing short of fiscal madness. For every dream horse like Seattle Slew (auction price: $17,500; payoff on the Triple Crown races alone: $462,380), there are thousands of also-rans and tens of thousands of never-rans. As a rule, only 5% of the more than 30,000 thoroughbreds foaled each year will ever earn their keep on a race track. Fully 65%, in fact, are high-priced, slow-footed dreams deferred that will retire without a single trip to the post. But if the pie is quite high...
...show Otherwise Engaged. "I can't see why if I don't screw up I shouldn't be acceptable," Cavett predicts about his role as a snobbish British publisher beset by domestic crises. But he does have one worry: "I have a bad dream in which I go blank during a speech and try to pause for a commercial. Then I realize I can't." Come fall, Cavett will switch back to TV and a new, five-night-a-week talk show on public television. He hopes to feature a mixture of literary figures like Saul...