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...bookseller named Marguerite McClure. They settled in the creaky beach community of Venice, Calif. Recalls Bradbury: "If a time machine were to return us to that now fashionable scene it would be unrecognizable. An amusement park was going to seed. Lion cages were sunk in the water. The roller coaster was decaying, ready to fall into the sea. All around us was a freak show of old movie personalities and show-business hangers-on. It was like something out of a novel...
...like the best roller-coaster ride you had when you were a ten-year- old." So says Steven Trotter, 22, of his 176-ft. plunge over Niagara Falls last week. Lying inside two pickle barrels ringed with giant inflated inner tubes and layers of fiber glass, the part-time bartender from Barrington, R.I., is the seventh known person to go over the falls and survive. Trotter, who carried a two-way radio and two oxygen tanks in the event he ran into trouble at the bottom of the falls, says he took the plunge "to get recognition as a stunt...
...kosher restaurant in West Los Angeles with her second husband Bernie while moonlighting as an extra in the Amazing Stories episode directed by Clint Eastwood. Back in the early '60s, though, in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Leah Spielberg could summon just enough energy to ride the roller coaster called Young Steven. "He was my first, so I didn't know that everybody didn't have kids like him," she recalls with a happy shrug. "I just hung on for dear life. He was always the center of attention, ruling his three younger sisters. And me too, actually. Our living...
...small courtroom in Orange County, Calif., last week, Attorney Allen Millstone pointed sadly to his wheelchair-bound client. In 1983 James Higgins had been a vigorous young man of 18 when he went to Disneyland and took a ride on Space Mountain. As the roller coaster rounded a bend, the youth was suddenly thrown from the rocket car. Through Disney's negligence, argued Millstone, Higgins is a paraplegic. Twenty-four hundred miles away in Florida, in another Orange County courtroom, an equally sad story was unfolding. While Marietta and Harry Goode listened closely, Lawyer Philip Freidin recounted a tragic...
Today, Disney says, fewer than 100 lawsuits are filed each year, and plaintiffs' attorneys concede that all are uphill battles. In the Higgins case, Disney contends the youth had been drinking and caused the roller-coaster accident himself. In Orlando, the company argues that the moat in which the boy drowned was safeguarded by at least two fences...