Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When I take visitors around in my boat at sunset, they are just awed," says Stephen Muss, whose family owns the Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel in Miami Beach. "Where else can we ride in an open boat in winter, looking at a skyline on the horizon, cruise ships slowly turning around in the harbor, jets passing overhead, with the day ending in full color in the blue water of our bay? This is just a sensational place to live...
...crew worried about not making landfall. In the crash landing, Aoki was briefly knocked unconscious. But they were down, no one was seriously hurt, and Abruzzo was asked once again why men do such things. "For the adventure, the achievement, the challenge," he said. "You do it for the horizons that are before you and to keep moving forward." After the world's longest balloon flight, what horizon is ?now before him? Abruzzo and crew want to balloon all the way around the world...
Truly, 44 this week, would have time for "goofing off," Slayton noted. As a crowd of half a million gathered at Cape Canaveral, the only apparent clouds on the horizon were the clouds on the horizon-an Atlantic storm that could pose a landing problem should the mission have to abort. But the go-ahead was given and the final countdown begun. Only in its last nine minutes did the mechanical elements start to bluster...
...paperbacks in the U.S.; in Mill Neck, N.Y. In 1939, De Graff set out to distribute pocket-size, glossy-covered 25? paperbacks, using magazine-marketing techniques to sell them at newsstands and in grocery and drugstore chains. A test run of 100,000 paperbacks, including the likes of Lost Horizon and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, sold out the first week. By the time De Graff left active leadership of the company in 1957, Pocket Books' annual sales totaled $15 million...
...Russell--who has had trouble winning when he's an incumbent--appears to be running stronger than usual this year. A term as vice-mayor has increased his visibility, and he seems to have raised more money than the other Independents. If there is one cloud on the political horizon for the Independent incumbents, though, it is the possibility of a very strong showing by Daniel Clinton. He was the last candidate eliminated in 1979; he has won before; and his campaign has been ironically helped by personal tragedy. His daughter Robin was killed in an accident two weeks...