Word: eldorado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year tradition of spending the New Year's holiday at the 360-acre Palm Springs estate of Publisher Walter Annenberg, where Richard Nixon often visited. They were joined by 60 friends to usher in the New Year. The next day, the Reagans went to a party at the Eldorado Country Club, where President Dwight D. Eisenhower spent his winters after leaving office. Reagan's hosts were California Tycoons Justin Dart and Jack Wrather; the guests included Attorney General-designate William French Smith, Standard Oil of Indiana Chairman John Swearingen and Comedian Bob Hope...
...severity of Detroit's auto depression was dramatically underscored last week. Mighty General Motors, which usually slides past industry slumps like a Cadillac Eldorado cruising around a minor bend in the road, reported a stunning second-quarter loss of $412 million. Overall this year, the company is expected to lose money for the first time since...
...wheels. But convertibles never accounted for a large slice of Detroit's market; and they finally were killed by air conditioning, increasing vandalism and high-speed driving on interstate freeways. One by one, the big automakers stopped building them. The last U.S.-made convertible, a special Bicentennial Cadillac Eldorado, rolled off the assembly line...
...worth out of American movies, for which the Spanish subtitle might read "Be gone!" while the sound track said, "I'll kick your teeth past your tonsils." Luis earns the Nazis' trust and the Iron Cross with his prescient reports on British planning. In time, Eldorado (Luis' code name) acquires an imaginary network of agents, all handsomely remunerated by German intelligence, which pours their pay into Cabrillo's Lisbon bank account. The cash from Berlin flows and grows. And Cabrillo never gets closer to England than Oporto...
Confidence in Cabrillo's chance of survival is not so easily maintained. Slaving in his office, Eldorado becomes obsessed with his imaginary network. Derived from guidebooks and railway timetables, the false messages flow to Madrid and thence to Berlin with "authentic" reports on everything from British re search on light alloys to homosexuality in the submarine service. Luis comes closer and closer to a Mauser slug in the chest. In real life, and most fiction, he would be cheaply expendable. Here he is not, because the rise of Luis from Franco's Most Wanted list to nouveau millionaire...