Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Japan's Honda Motor Co. first entered its machines in the big European motorcycle races two years ago, one Western racing buff snorted: "We knew the Japanese made good rickshas, but we didn't know they made motorcycles." Honda's bikes soon blew exhaust fumes in the scoffer's face. Seven of this year's ten international Grand Prix motorcycle races have been run so far, and Honda's machines have lapped the best in Europe. Under the complicated scoring system of motorcycling's Olympics, Honda has piled up 106 points...
...several thousand" do-it-yourself kits, ranging in price up to $6,000, has a file of 100,000 potential customers-most of whom already have paid $2 for drawings and general specifications of its products. Two years ago, convinced that "Americans are nuts about helicopters," Los Angeles Copter Buff Tom Adams quit his job as a sheet metal worker at Douglas Aircraft Co., began peddling his own Hobbycopter kits and blueprints. Last year Adams sold nearly 100 kits at $2,800 apiece, mailed out more than 1,000 blueprints at $35 each. Helicopter clubs have sprouted up in Detroit...
Shadows (Gena; Lion International) was made by Actor John Cassavetes, a young Stanislavsky buff long known in show business as a watered-down Brando-on-the-rocks. After a brief boom in television and B movies, Cassavetes in 1956 set up his own actors' studio in Manhattan. There one night his group improvised a scene that suddenly "exploded with life." Cassavetes had a wild idea: Why not improvise a full-length movie...
Mindful that the French had set off an atomic blast in the Sahara a year ago, Dr. Kettlewell last spring collected early-arriving migratory moths and examined them under a Geiger counter. One specimen of Nomophila noctuella, a pale buff moth with a one-inch wingspread, showed a suspiciously high count. He pressed it on X-ray film and found that the radiation was coming not from the moth as a whole but from a single small spot in the thorax...
Last Tuesday, a team with several "name" performers, Holy Cross, lost to the varsity track squad, 82 to 27, in a convincing display of ineptness. The most dedicated track buff would have trouble recognizing even one name on the roster of today's visitor to Briggs Cage, Pittsburgh, but the meet is likely to be a much closer affair...