Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month leave. When she returned to Cal Fed, Garland found that her position had been filled. "I didn't know what to do," she says. Unemployed and unable to pay her $550-a-month rent, Garland was eventually evicted from her apartment. She and her daughter moved into a friend's living room. Shortly after, she agreed to let the father take care of the baby until Garland found a job. By the spring of 1983, he had sued for and received custody...
...film The Philadelphia Experiment, a youth is hurtled from the 1940s into the present. He finds solace in a motel, watching Abbott and Costello reruns. Then he switches to a Reagan press conference. "Allison," he says to a friend, "I know this guy. Is this another movie?" Her answer: "No, David, this is not a movie...
George Nielsen, who owns the Paradise Hill Bar just down the road, staunchly defends his young friend's "mishap." Though he helped Dallas escape after the Bull Camp massacre, Nielsen claims not to know the rebel's whereabouts. "If you gave me $10 million today and told me to put a finger on him, where he is," he claims, "I couldn...
...would be unfair, however, to put all the blame on Regan for increasing the President's detachment. The system has prevailed because Reagan likes it. "He is very comfortable the way it is," says a friend. "If he needed more, I think...
November was drawing to a close, and though the Iran arms scandal was an accelerating political danger, the President, even in private conversation, still refused to concede error. George Bush confided to a friend that he was troubled by Ronald Reagan's position. "He won't even listen to the word mistake," related Bush. The President, he told the friend, had to make some kind of move. It was a rare lapse for the fastidious Vice President: even with close friends, he maintains a total blackout about his dealings with Reagan...