Word: bike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Evel Knievel was back last week, hurtling his way to fame, fortune and another hospital bed. Knievel came to London's Wembley Stadium to attempt a leap over 13 single-decker buses. Twelve might have been better. The spectacular 100-m.p.h. jump, which began with Evel atop the bike, ended 140 feet later with the bike on top of Evel. "I will never jump again," he announced to a crowd of 60,000 after aides had helped him struggle to a microphone. Following a night in Whitechapel Hospital, however, where doctors diagnosed compressed vertebrae, two broken fingers...
...with their peripheral vision, or pretended not to see me, or grinned as I grimaced at the inevitable clumsiness of taking people's pictures. Two waist-high kids came over to look at the bicycle. One spoke French for both of them, and told me about his father's bike that had a "pa-pa-put" motor on it so he never had to pedal except to get started. He asked me about the name engraved on the frame of the bike, and laughed when I said the American r's in "Sears, Roebuck...
...bicycle not only shines in Schweitzer's story, he also tells of the obstacles it had to overcome in a deeply conservative village. It caused the horses to bolt. And when Schweitzer himself was able to afford a bike, his father's parishioners thought it arrogant, and certainly unbecoming for the son of a minister...
...Asinari Family wish to express their heartfelt gratitude to all of the Harvard students who sponsored Tom Gennis for the Bike-A-Thon which was held in Arlington on Sunday, April 13, 1975, proceeds of which are to be donated to the John L. Asinari Memorial Scholarship Fund. If this fund can make it possible for some student to further his education in John's memory, some solace should come from this to us. Thank you. Sincerely, Mr. & Mrs. Louis E. Asinari
...year Harvard ended the Greater Boston League season with a convincing rout another championship season. But this year squad protested Harvard's domination of the GBI which goes back the past four seats in a row sending the Crimson squad away with a mediocre 5.4 circuit record. The mythical Bike Cup, symbolic of GBL supremacy, will not reside in Dillon this year...