Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arizona, Bach guided the plane down for a landing amidst startled boaters to snatch an afternoon swim in Lake Havasu. Over Kansas, he handed Willwerth the controls. "I immediately learned the true meaning of sweaty palms," recalls Willwerth, who up to that moment had three fewer hours behind the wheel than Foote. Willwerth gamely hung on over three states before gratefully surrendering the controls in time for Bach to handle the landing...
...bill accepting an official new winter hideaway for the Presidents. It is Cereal Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's 110-room, $7,000,000 Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, a kind of Moorish Xanadu built on 17 acres of hard coral between the Atlantic ocean front and Lake Worth...
...children. "Part of me felt like a rat," he admits, "but I had to ask myself if I could live there any longer. And I couldn't." Recently he has settled a good deal of money on the family and established them in a large house near Lake Michigan. He and his wife Bette are on easier terms. Neither will discuss persistent rumors of another woman, though Bach says that freedom was the real issue and suggests that he will never again be able to live with the impingements of marriage...
...long been hitting the open road to appreciate the beauty of nature. "When I was in high school, I had a pick-up truck and I used to drive it to West Virginia--that's beautiful country. I seriously thought about buying 70 acres of that land near a lake, but I didn't because the price was too high...
...Always, the "corner had been turned," the end was in sight; stick it out a little longer. In 1969 Henry Kissinger told war protesters, "If we have not ended the war by six months from now, you can come back and tear down the White House fence." Writes Anthony Lake, a young Foreign Service officer who resigned in 1970 because of the war: "To be believed is (to some extent) to be trusted. Not to be believed?the present condition Washington often faces before the world and the American people ?threatens the character of representative democracy...