Word: circusing
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...carefully rehearsed plan in preparing for the floods. A well-staffed flood control center, resembling a military command post, was set up to begin coordinating an evacuation system and dike patrol. National Guardsmen and personnel from the local Air Force base were pressed into service to help. A Shrine Circus, scheduled to play the municipal auditorium last week, was canceled and the hall used for storage...
...pondering which one to spring on his White Sox followers next. It is no wonder he expects more than a million paid through his gates this year. Milwaukee Brewer Boss Bud Selig, 41, comes right out and calls baseball show biz. His competition? Not other sports, but "movies, the circus, rock concerts." His market? Youth. A 1975 survey showed that the average age of Brewer fans is 25; the young have discovered that the game is cheap at the gate and fine for a date ($8 is tops, in Houston; 85? is bottom, in Baltimore...
...program it is called the "Giant Gyrating Gyro-Wheel," and that is probably as good a name as any for the contraption. Two or three times a day at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus has settled in for its spring visit, a British-born performer named Elvin Bale approaches the device, unlimbers its 40-ft. arms and sets both himself and the great wheel into motion. Thus begins what Ringling Impresario Irvin Feld says is "one of the most fantastic thrill acts the show has ever...
...madmen is frustrating. An inquiry into madness is even more so: it is difficult to focus, and there are distinctions to be agreed upon. As examples are amassed and the inquirer's theoretical construct rises, the madness described inevitably assumes a certain flavor and tone. Sometimes there is the circus fascination, fallen from favor in this age of ethics but quite popular in medieval days, where raving lunatics in various aspects of disintegration are portrayed to impress hellish demonology on the mind of the reader. Other times the inquirer insists that his aims are ones of great moral piety...
...fellows could outdistance a normal human in a physical competition. Sky Lo Lo, Little Brutus, The Jamaican Kid, and a dozen others are arm wrestling champs in their own home districts. Others, less proficient in their sport, have had to humble themselves in the off-season by working on circus side shows, collecting disability insurance (achondroplasm, legally, is a disability), or working in the kind of factories whose owners secretly build oil drilling equipment into prosthetic limbs...