Word: coaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slogged wet-footed in leather boots through the Maine woods. Helped by a $400 loan from his brother Otho, he set up shop. The Freeport factory expanded steadily but haphazardly, and today it looks like a cross between Grandma's attic and a broken roller coaster. Dumbwaiters hesitantly carry materials from floor to floor through a mazelike production line. Mailing labels are typed and pasted by hand, and requests for catalogues are filed in shirt boxes. Pay is so modest that each change in the federal minimum-wage law has required an adjustment of the whole salary schedule...
...build up a new defense line at Walong and in the lofty Se Pass, reinforcements were hurried to Assam. The effort to bring up men and supplies from the plains was backbreaking. TIME Correspondent Edward Behr made the trip over a Jeep path that was like a roller coaster 70 miles long and nearly three miles high. He reports: "The Jeep path begins at Tezpur, amid groves of banana and banyan trees, then climbs steeply upward through forests of oak and pine to a 10,000-ft. summit. Here the path plunges dizzily downward to the supply base of Bomdi...
...winds sweep down from the snow crests of the Himalayas, and if a man makes the slightest exertion, his lungs feel as if they are bursting. Newcomers suffer from the nausea and lightheadedness of mountain sickness. Every item of supply, except water, must be brought up the roller coaster from the plains. There are few bits of earth flat enough for an airstrip, and helicopters have trouble navigating in the thin...
Palisades Park (Freddy Cannon; Swan). Hot dogs in the tunnel of love and passion on the roller coaster. Cannon recalls it all in the classic tradition-braying and honking against a clanking, socked-out beat. His message: "You'll never know how great a kiss can feel/ When you stop at the top of the Ferris wheel...
...fair's fun-and-game area, or Gayway, does not measure up to the taste and imagination of Disneyland, but it has plenty to keep visitors busy. Among the attractions: a German roller coaster that makes sharp right-angle turns; a "Space Wirl" that features cars controlled by riders spinning wildly in several directions; an Italian sports-car race; and an "adults only" section that includes "Backstage U.S.A.," a LeRoy Prinz production in which oglers have the illusion of walking through a show girls' dressing room...