Word: coaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's prodigy Doug Hardin zipped across the finish line 46 seconds ahead of the Huskies' sophomore Bob Bruen to take first. Hardin ran the 4.8-mile roller-coaster course in 23:14 -- the fastest time ever clocked by a Harvard harrier at Franklin Park...
...Johnson roller coaster kept swooping down and up-from the forced hilarity of political show biz to the solemnity of tributes to two of the world's lost leaders, from the gaiety of a Gaelic reception to the sentiment of a high school commencement in the old home town...
...narrow streets of the oldest quarter of Prague, dodging pedestrians, cars, cops, beer carts, fire engines, lampposts. This roller skater is onstage as well as on various screens, weaving and skirring from one medium to the other. Some spectators found this bizarre slalom more breathtaking than the roller-coaster ride in the original Cinerama...
...worth of traditional hold-onto-your-hat rides. "Basically there are only two rides: up and down, or around-but you've got to have them to make a living in this business," says Freedomland Vice President Art Moss. Freedomland's latest include a monorail roller coaster imported from Germany, a Space Whirl featuring bumper cars which can also whirl like dervishes at 100 r.p.m. But the park's most puzzling addition to its fun is no ride; it's a waxworks replica of the Last Supper...
...West Was Won. Cinerama, that megalomyopic miracle, has come a long way since it took theater audiences over the top on its initial roller-coaster ride in 1952 and infected the nation's shopkeepers with an "o-rama" syndrome. Having won its spurs at Angkor Wat, it now tries an epic with a plot. No other screen could contain all the bang-banging, choo-chooing, galloping, whooping and thundering that three directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall), 13 stars, ten costars, 12,000 extras, and 1,000 buffaloes have done in How the West Was Won. Even...