Word: cyclists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winner of each lap got a $570 prize and a bright yellow sweatshirt (le maillot jaune) to wear during the next day's racing. A dedicated professional, Cyclist Bobet wore le maillot jaune almost all the way. And after the backbreaking scramble to Briangon, the last laps across the Vosges Mountains and the black roads of the North Country all seemed downhill. At week's end, Bobet pedaled into Paris' Pare des Princes, a comfortable 15 min., 49 sec. ahead of Switzerland's Kubler. Third man in the Tour's history to win twice running...
...education at three universities-Oxford, and Dublin's Trinity College and Royal. He left Oxford a hero-the only undergraduate, he reports, who had ever drained at a draught the famed silver ale sconce of Worcester College (contents: "more than five pints"). Trinity College made a racing cyclist and physician of him, but the Royal gave him his chief claim to fame by bringing him in contact with an unknown student named James Joyce...
When the last cyclist has disappeared from sight, you are likely to feel both jarred and satisfied. Clever photography and careful acting produce a definite atmosphere--you can almost smell gasoline and oil. Of course this may be due to the mob of leather jacket fans you fight through to find a seat. But it's worth...
Organ Grinder showed a lonely street beneath an "El" station, with a solitary cyclist pedaling between the strangely elongated shapes of an empty city. Among Radulovic's most successful combinations of abstract forms with recognizable objects: Anesthesia, a big oil of grey, white and blue in which the surgical team is seen in triplicate by the almost anesthetized patient, and the last moment of consciousness is represented by a spiral nebula of whites and blues...
Refueling in 22 Seconds. Some of the wise money was bet on cyclists using the hardy Nortons and other British makes (Triumphs, BSAs); Nortons have won in four of the last six Nationals. But no machine was better than its rider or his breaks. There were three deaths, a cracked skull, one broken leg. The race's worst accident came when a spectator stepped out unwarily into the path of Clifford Farwell; both the spectator and Cyclist Farwell were killed...