Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chase crew-Dougie's father and Lewis-follows by car, keeping in touch by CB radio. We have been aloft in the midsummer air for nearly an hour, using a tank of propane and traveling eight miles, when Dougie spots a convenient grassy knoll. He releases the hot air and drops us gently to the ground. Now it is time for the champagne...
...name of journalistic curiosity and publishable profit. "Ernest Hemingway once said that my daydreams were the dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty," says Plimpton, 50. "I agree. It's nightmarish, these sports. They are painful, not joyful." Plimpton's latest joyless endeavor is race-car driving. He is revving up a book about the track and plans to get the feel of the pit by competing in the Toyota Pro Celebrity Match Race in Watkins Glen, N.Y., on Oct. 2. Does he think he has any talent at the wheel? "You need to have enormous concentration...
Indeed, the big loser in the great gas station shake-up has been the small businessman who leases his station from a large firm and depends on it to provide fuel and marketing support. Often these operators make most of their money from car repairs or maintenance, and do not want to switch to selling gas exclusively. Yet, if they refuse to go along, the companies can and sometimes do refuse to renew their lease...
...instead on providing auto repairs and parts. For example, Sears, Roebuck and J.C. Penney both operate a string of such centers nationwide. Yet hard realities cannot be denied. Like the Mom and Pop grocery store, the gas dealer who will check the oil, tune a motor or tow a car will almost certainly be ever rarer in the years ahead...
...repeated that few drowning victims are likely to survive more than four to six minutes under water. Chances are that anyone who does will have irreparable brain damage from lack of oxygen. But consider the case of Brian Cunningham, 18, of Jackson, Mich. In March 1975 Cunningham's car plunged through the ice of a frozen pond; when rescuers hauled him out 38 minutes later, his body was blue. He had no pulse, his breathing had stopped, and his eyes were fixed in a dilated, glassy stare. Cunningham, in fact, was declared dead from drowning. Then he belched...