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Chandler has approached both work and play with that same drive to prove himself. A big-game hunter who says his sport has taken him to "all the high mountains of the world," Chandler is also a motorcycle enthusiast, weight lifter and former Stanford University shotputter who made the Olympic team in 1952. Tall, tanned and blond, Chandler describes himself as "the world's oldest surfer" and regales visitors with tales of riding 12-ft. waves. He owns a $4 million fleet of competition cars and antique autos and is, along with Friend Paul Newman, one of the oldest...
Fine performances from Moriarty, Tuesday Weld as Moriarty's strung-out wife, and especially from Nick Nolte as Ray Hicks, the martial arts enthusiast with a Nietzschean twist. A wonderful reading period film--"All my life I've taken shit from morons...
...think I am going to do the same things I did many years ago. This car has been in a museum and soon I will be in a museum too." Fangio warmed up by driving in a regularity trial with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, a fast-car enthusiast, sitting in the mechanic's seat. Then in an event billed as "The Race of Champions" Fangio drove alone in the Mercedes, touching 165 m.p.h. during the 8.7-mile course and crossing the finish line one length behind three-time World Champion Jack Brabham...
With Congress going into recess and no crisis requiring a presidential presence in Washington, Jimmy Carter felt as entitled as any other citizen to an August vacation. A white-water enthusiast for many years, he decided that the Rockies' Salmon River would provide a brisk break from the capital. The mountain vistas of the American West were more appealing in August than his usual retreat on Georgia's St. Simon's Island...
...museum, with gun-wielding gangsters shooting each other in front of it to the accompaniment of recorded bangs. The wax museum went bust. The wall made its last appearance at a Vancouver nightclub, and then Patey dismantled and stored the thing. Now, if any nostalgia enthusiast feels nostalgia for the wall where seven gangsters were shot, George Patey will accept any reasonable offer...