Word: bike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Come Sunday, friendship really gets rolling on a nifty little two-wheeler the stepfather picks up for Seryozha. That afternoon something deeper stirs when the stepfather, surveying what's left of the bike after it runs into a billy goat, shows no sign of anger. Doglike devotion sets in when papasha declines to punish Seryozha for insulting an insulting uncle-"My dear, we must not punish a child for calling a fool a fool." Absolute adoration is attained when the stepfather lets Seryozha spend a day at the collective farm he manages. "He's my Daddy...
...make girls oversleep, overeat and sometimes go overboard. Before, during and after sophomore slump, girls struggle with the problem of men. They desperately want men; colleges tend to get rated by their nearness to the supply. Says a Saint Mary's girl: "Notre Dame is ten minutes by bike, 15 minutes at a dead run, and 22 if you just walk." University of Texas coeds are described as "bluntly aggressive with men." A sociology professor reports that "15 or 20 years ago a college girl would invariably reply, 'Career,' if you asked her what...
...have had his heart attack 20 years earlier." Last week, still practicing what he prescribes, the wiry Dr. White, 75, led 69 other Massachusetts bicycle buffs on a 16-mile spin through Amherst and South Hadley. Though his wife Ina, 59, fell out after eight miles with a defective bike, White himself finished his health-on-wheels grind still breathing easy, reassuringly told a world of guilt and angina: "There's no reason a man should not be active until he's 100. You don't need tranquilizers if you get enough exercise...
Handling a testy racing bike is tough work for a man, but to Jill Savage it is almost always just plain fun. "When you look at a good bike," she says, "it's like looking at a steeplechase horse. It's lovely. When you feel the tires bite the turf and the bike take off. and you know you've judged it just right, and you can feel the power waiting to take a bite again-that's simply gorgeous...
...wide "body belt," but she still takes a beating elsewhere. Last year in Scotland, she fractured a kneecap. In Wales, Jill suffered through a series of bizarre misfortunes. Stuck in a deep bog, she had to drag her 3OO-lb. cycle out of the mud. When her bike hit a bad bump, Jill plunged over the handlebars, landed headfirst in a rabbit hole. "I was stuck so fast," she says, "that I had to undo my helmet to get my head out.'' Battered, mud-spattered, running a fever, Jill doggedly refused to quit...