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South Floridians tend to compare their current woes to such earlier cataclysms street the 1 926 hurricane that devastated Miami or the colossal land failures of the late 1920 that turned millionaires into paupers overnight. The region's present agonies, they argue, are due more to a random run of bad luck than anything that could have been prevented. "The people's attitude is, 'Damn it, I am down here to avoid problems, not have them,' " says Governor Bob Graham, a Dade County native. " 'Now I have them.' How do you deal with these issues in a political climate that...
...four adventurers in the gondola-Ben Abruzzo, 51, Larry Newman, 34, Ron Clark, 41 (all of Albuquerque), and Rocky Aoki, 43, Japanese-born owner of the Benihana restaurant chain-drank champagne toasts to the first balloon to make it across the Pacific Ocean and then settled down to wait overnight for rescue...
...otherwise steady individuals will blow their tops. The mud flats of Soldiers Field will tremble under the pounding and stampings of the huge audience, and the groans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff forkids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor with hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising...
...matter that the notion was as old as ancient Greece, as recent as the 1910 Boy Scouts Official Handbook; Americans make a specialty of reinventing the wheel every decade or so. The philosophy seized folks overnight, and the sport of mass running had begun. Suburbanites jogged
...passionately together. As he told Hoopes, "Any piece of California, no matter how drab, prosaic, or dull, is California just the same, the land of Golden Promise." Unlike the staid, conservative East, where the wealthy stayed wealthy and the poor stayed poor, the West had become a land of overnight wealth, of rags to riches, with nobody excluded from the chase. Many characters are willing to risk anything to find...