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...control, the flamboyant Leahy rejuvenated the event, paving walkways, bringing in rides, building a model New England village with wooden fronts bought from the Grand Central railway, placing hundreds of gargantuan plastic animals and figures around the fairground. It was a unique blend of 4-H club, carnival and circus...
DIED. Edmondo ("Papa") Zacchini, 87, Italian-born circus clown credited with developing the perilous, modern "human cannonball" act in 1922; in Tampa. Zacchini broke his right leg the first time he used a spring-powered cannon to hurl him 20 ft When he came to the U.S. to join the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey circus in 1930, he had already designed compressed-air cannons that could send him or one of his six brothers flying 100 ft through the air, although by the time he stopped performing the stunt in 1934 he had suffered four other leg fractures...
...this weekend the world's top drivers and the whole of the International Circus Show that is Formula One racing set up shop in Nevada for what is officially termed the United States Grand Prix of Las Vegas. While Aldenhoevel may stress that the event has nothing to do with the traditional U.S. Grand Prix, the comparison is inevitable. Meanwhile, 2500 miles east, Franzese is not nearly as pessimistic as Currie regarding the return of Formula One racing to Watkins Glen...
...deputies also organized entertainments for the jurors: a trip to the harness races, a werewolf movie, a sightseeing tour, a night at the Shriners' circus, a lavish prime-rib meal (for which the jurors had to ante up because the cost exceeded the dinner allowance of $16), plus weekly shopping trips for snacks and toilet articles. But everywhere the jurors went, the deputies went too. All the defendants had been members of Chicago street gangs, and the authorities did not want to take any chances on attacks or disruptions by other gang members. "It was like a giant baby...
...page book grew out of The Pension Grillparzer, the short story that Irving folded into the heart of Garp. That work tells of a father who takes his family to stay in a seedy Viennese hotel. It is home to a rundown Hungarian circus whose members include a shinless man who walks only on his hands and a depressed bear on a unicycle...