Word: thunderbirds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ralph Lombardi, 49, arrived in Viet Nam in 1962 as a securities salesman, leaving behind a wife, a Thunderbird and a town house in Brooklyn Heights. "When I came here," he says, "I had high blood pressure and ulcers -after the first year, both problems had vanished." Lombardi never got around to selling stocks. Instead, he played piano in a Saigon hotel for 18 months at $900 a month: when the American presence was at its highest levels, a polished entertainer like Lombardi was very much in demand. Today he ekes out a meager living by teaching at the University...
...newest and most sophisticated of these fantasy parlors is Golf-O-Rama, in Bedford Hills, N.Y. For $3.75 on weekdays and $5.25 on weekends, a golfer can pretend that he is playing 18 holes on one of five courses (Oahu, Thunderbird, Pebble Beach, Firestone, the Dunes). The illusion of actual play is achieved by projecting an image of the selected fairway on a 9-ft. by 9-ft. screen inside a large booth. When the player drives his ball against this screen, a computer measures its speed and direction, makes adjustments for hooks or slices, and controls the movement...
...hard sell worked. Within four years, Davidson, with only 1,000 students, became a big, nationally ranked powerhouse. In 1969, after the Wildcats finished No. 3 in the U.S., grateful Davidson alumni presented Driesell with a new Thunderbird. A few weeks later he drove off to College Park, Md., and a new $25,000-a-year coaching...
...from Columbia on the seventeenth hole--seven cases of Hamm's Beer his DKI sweatshirt, a wrinkled and somewhat threadbare plain jacket from J. Press York Street. New Haven, and one very blonde Midwestern girl--all of it went into a creaking and rather obscene '64 Thunderbird, the same one he had tried unsuccessfully to unload on this ensign from Harvard when he was in the Navy. It had become a ritual even down to the blank check he folded twice and tucked into his wallet just before heading East on interstate 90 Champagne Chuck Yale 69 was going back...
...Club 47 is the Passim coffeehouse and Passim has been providing a steady stream of folk talent for Cambridge audiences since its inception. Last week, a young man named Townes Van Zandt entertained there, evoking memories of the young Dylan with tunes such as "Talking Thunderbird Blues". And there are currently indications of musical rejuvenation on other fronts as well...