Word: bike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manhattan bike riders find that they can snake easily through the traffic snarls, making their way through narrow openings where not even a Volkswagen could pass. Some cyclists are frightened by their first experience of heavy traffic, but, says Allen Bragdon, a publishing executive who pedals to work with an attache case strapped to his bike, "it's really quite safe. Everyone thinks, 'Look at that fool on the bike. Let's stay away from him.' " Bicycling gives the riders a strong sense of independence. "You're a free agent," says Bragdon...
Phyllis Shaw, a writer for an IBM house organ, Business Machine, finds city cycling enough of an oddity to provoke curiosity and generate sympathy. Once she dashed into a department store shortly before closing time without locking her bike properly, came out to find a strange man standing guard over it. "All he said was 'I'm glad you came back. I have to catch a train, but I was afraid that someone would steal your bike.'" At the movies, she adds, "I usually put it where the person in the box office...
...peasants, bankers who would sooner pedal than be chauffeured, bicycling is a way to dream and drift in dignity, to twirl life like a long-stemmed glass of Alsace wine. "Vive le vélo, un ami de l'homme" proclaims an affectionate Norman toast: "Long live the bike, a friend...
...Finney's strongest asset as an actor is his presence, an inward weight that holds the center of every scene, as the heaviest fish holds the bottom of a net. But he is also a grandly gifted mimic. His dullard eye and dirgelike stroke, as he rides his bike to work, present an ex erience as old as that of the fellah on the water wheel - the quiet desperation of the man who works for someone else. Best of all, he has the rare intensity of talent that seems to transform every atom of Finney into an atom...
Franz Josef proved to be a standout student. He won highest prizes in Latin, somewhat offset by his predilection for rowdy pranks, which kept his grades in deportment low and his popularity with fellow students high. He developed a passion for bicycling, once entered a 75-mile cross-country bike race, and won it, earning himself the title of "South German Road Champion." Resisting pressure to join the Nazis, he enrolled himself and his new motorcycle in the innocuous National Socialist Motorized Corps, which was little more than a sports club. At Munich University, he ranked...