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Only sensational goal-tending by Gold Coaster Paul Jameson kept Eliot from reaching double figures, as the Elephant sextet kept the puck in the Adams zone most of the night. In the Eliot goal, Willy Wetmore turned in his second shut-out of the season by stopping two shots. He advanced his record to four saves for the season...
Skidding Lancia. The second day's docket called for two laps, from Oaxaca over lofty, roller-coaster roads to Puebla (252.9 miles), then a short (79.5 miles), nightmare stretch girdling a volcano at a height of nearly two miles and then plunging in murderous curves down to Mexico City. Again the Lancias led the pack, and Italy's "King of the Mountains," Piero Taruff, relishing his favorite sort of terrain, hung up lap records of 88 m.p.h. on the long leg, 102.8 m.p.h. on the treacherous short one. Late that night, in a hospital far back...
...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...