Word: coasters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist influence. Guatemala this year decided to stage a lavish international fair. Jorge Toriello, a high-powered businessman who backs the regime, was put in charge with $1,080,000 to spend. Promising the republic a gambling casino, horse races, Miami-style dog racing, Ferris wheels, a roller-coaster and a brand-new bullring, Toriello pitched right...
...flattie) escapes from an amusement park, says Producer Leonard Goldstein, "and winds up in a mirror maze . . . So you have about twelve gorillas popping out in 3-D from the mirror. We also hide him in a diving bell, and he submerges, and he gets on a roller coaster . . . That's the only thing 3-D is good...
...phenomenal $4,300,000 but had also become a social phenomenon. Travel bureaus this summer were flooded with requests from people who wanted to see the original of what they saw in Cinerama: the Grand Canyon, the canals of Venice, the bull rings of Spain. Even the roller coaster at New York's Rockaway Playland-the opening attraction in Cinerama's two-hour documentary-had enjoyed a record year...
...Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (Warner) has a climactic sequence that seems to have been made to order for 3-D: a prehistoric monster tangled up in a Coney Island roller coaster. But the picture is a flattie, and unfortunately the writing and direction are as flat as the photography. The beast is a 40-ft.-high "rhedosaurus," which gets to Coney Island after being dislodged by an Arctic atom-bomb test from a 100 million-year hibernation. With the help of a handsome scientist (Paul Christian) and a pretty paleontologist (Paula Raymond), the Mesozoic monster is finally killed...
Over the roller-coaster mile-and-a-half turf of Epsom Downs, Jockey Richards and Pinza justified their bettors' faith. At the last turn, famed Tattenham Corner, Richards saved ground by snugging close along the curving rail. In the stretch. where Richards' other horses have been tiring for a generation, Pinza proved to be a stayer. At the finish, Richards had his first Derby winner, by four lengths. Second in the field of 27: Queen Elizabeth's Aureole...