Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lacy Branches. Some of the Right People, in other words, are Righter than others. Members of mere Society all know who Real Society people are, but members of Real Society cannot be expected to keep track of all of the worthy but numerous thanes who make up Society. The Social Register is not a reliable guide to who is Real. Birmingham implies that it is rather too democratic (it is published for profit, and one is not likely to buy it if one is not in it). Some citizens who are Real choose not to be listed. The author quotes...
...explaining the $409 he had on him despite his being unemployed recently. He did well enough at John Muir High School to gain admission to Pasadena City College, but he dropped out. He wanted to be a jockey, but could qualify only as a "hot walker," a low-ranking track factotum who cools down horses after the run. Then he got thrown from a horse, suffering head and back injuries...
...fall is owned by him (although leased to such moteliers as Howard Johnson and Holiday Inns), and so is the transportation system of small, gaudy "tramp trains" that will run between motels and amusement park. Later, Hofheinz plans to build more motels, two theaters, a museum, an automobile race track and an inland Sea-Arama...
Money & Fun. Next to come is the California Exposition, a permanent, year-round state fair just five minutes from Sacramento. Opening on July 1, it will feature a vast amusement park, an exhibition center, a race track and artificial lakes. The $20 million project, which is designed for the enjoyment of all the family, covers 630 acres. Estimates are that in the next twelve years the Exposition will draw 50 million people, gross some $330 million for the state-and in the process create a sizable boom for Sacramento...
...kind of fantasy comedy that depends heavily on the audience's suspension of disbelief for success. This time, disbelief is almost impossible to overcome, thanks to a clumsy script that features such antique devices as a shoe-banging Russian U.N. delegate, cliché-spouting admen and a sound track that plays The Dragnet Theme whenever the fuzz appear...