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...Trade in the presidential limo for a K-car station wagon...
...been pushed to peak capacity by a profusion of cable channels searching for low-cost programming to fill their schedules. Nick at Nite woos baby boomers each evening with campy sitcoms like The Donna Reed Show and Get Smart. The Family Channel has cornered the market in old westerns (Wagon Train, The Virginian), while the Arts & Entertainment Network, originally conceived as a haven for fine-arts programming, now runs oldies , like The Avengers and Mrs. Columbo. Ted Turner's cable operation may attract a lot of attention with MGM movie blockbusters and environmental specials, but its most dependable ratings grabber...
...heat relentlessly fills all spaces. This is pioneer and pathfinder country, a desert that developers turned into the mother of all real estate opportunities by diverting water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Oroville reservoir, far to the north. This is a place for hardworking parents, with wagon-train hearts, seeking picket-fenced yards, swing sets and quiet streets, for people who can endure temperatures in the 100s and can drive three hours a day to work and back...
...unnerving. One by one, houses exploded in flames. A neighbor yelled that they were surrounded by fire. "We're the hole in the doughnut," he shouted. John shivered. "At this point I was still halfway rational," he remembers. He got the kids into their tennis shoes, backed the station wagon and the Mercedes sedan out of the garage, put the kids in the cars and left the engines running. At 2 p.m. the fire crested the hill above the Harrison house with a terrible roar and danced down the slope. Joy belatedly began trying to collect valuables. She found...
...house with a soundproof basement, he recorded 19 Singable Songs for the Very Young. He borrowed $4,000 to have the records pressed and sold them from his Toyota station wagon. His concerts for children became local legends, with scalpers selling tickets for $300 apiece. "I'd play to 1,200 children in the public library; then that night I'd go to the coffeehouse to play, and there'd be 30 people. I got the message...