Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trudeau embraces the Greek notion of developing both the mind and the body to perfection. In the tradition of the Canadian voyageur, his idea of relaxation is to climb a mountain, go skiing or snowshoeing, paddle and portage his canoe, or just drive out into the country and go exploring in the woods. He has a pilot's license, a brown belt in judo. Sometimes, during a dinner at a friend's house, he will excuse himself and stand on his head in the corner for five minutes. Exuberantly boyish, he likes to slide down banisters or vault...
...ripples across the roughest terrain like a huge, double-jointed caterpillar. It can cling to 60° slopes, climb over boulders and fallen timber, push its way through water, mud or snow. On less rigorous straightaways, it can whip along at speeds of up to 65 m.p.h. Built by Lockheed engineers as a high-performance, wheel-driven answer to the tank, the curious transport is fittingly called the Twister...
With French workers winning wage increases averaging 15% this year aviation men estimated that the plane's $20 million price tag will climb by another $700,000-perhaps more. "The increase in French costs is bound to have an adverse effect on the Concorde," said John Stonehouse, British Minister of State for Technology, "because it will be more difficult to sell outside France and the U.K." Indeed the delta-winged plane is already encountering sales trouble: airlines have signed options to buy only 74 Concordes-and the figure has remained static for a year. Even with sales...
...those days," TIME Correspondent Hugh Sidey remembers, "a sense of urgency about him, almost as if he were sliding off some horrible precipice toward some faraway disaster. There was an irresistible compulsion to do everything and try everything. That is when he began to shoot rapids and climb mountains." This compulsion, an almost existential need to dare the elements, combined with a lifelong love of physical exertion, prompted him to lead the first ascent of the Yukon's 14,000-ft. Mount Kennedy, named for his brother, and plunge, during a 1965 canoe trip down the Amazon, into piranha...
...bottle thrown from the tenth floor of Carmen's 15 floors is moving 60 miles an hour when it hits the street. We start a cautious retreat but stop when the Jocks pass us on their way two blocks north to the checkpoint (so they don't have to climb the gate). A bottle smashes at the sandaled feet of a Jock in a sweatshirt who is in the center of the group. He looks up and counts out windows on the facade of Carmen, deciding which room threw it, then heads for the checkpoint. We are hiding under...