Word: evel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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September 8: Evel Knievel tries to clear Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a homemade rocket. He fails, parachutes to safety, and earns a guaranteed $6 million...
...found that crowds tap the unconscious: individual responsibility and civilized restraints fade, giving way to exaggerated feelings, high suggestibility and impulsive, primitive behavior. These views, expanded and refined by later scholars, were amply illustrated last week in the crowd of 16,000 spectators who gathered to see Evel Knievel's fizzled but nonfatal attempt to rocket across Idaho's Snake River Canyon. The scene, as reported by TIME Correspondent Leo Janos...
...bizarre spectacle, garnished with machismo and the threat of death: the ultimate expression of the motorcycle culture and, according to one Evel Knievel aide, "a blue-collar Woodstock." Squadrons of bikers roared through Twin Falls, their girls and gear nestled against their backs. Fans from every state in the union formed a camper city that was soon awash in beer, dope, cocaine and false rumors of savage beatings and rapes...
...shed their shirts and climbed aboard their boy friends' shoulders. A group of bikers hoisted a naked woman aloft and tossed her over a fence into the press compound. One girl stripped and, encouraged by the crowd, performed fellatio on her boy friend while he shouted: "For you, Evel! For you, man!" Others chanted a constant refrain: "The tribes have gathered!" When the crowd shouted obscenities at a public-address announcer who was ineptly trying to reduce tensions, the announcer boomed back an electronic...
After Knievel was helicoptered back to the launch site, some of the crowd began smashing TV equipment, ripping off technicians' headsets and cutting wires. Later several hundred bikers burned the concession stands to the ground, then pushed a car to the ramp and set both afire. Even Evel took abuse from the fans. He had promised free beer in the event of a successful landing and, when none was served, some of the crowd cursed him. The next morning, when Knievel was about to be whisked away to the airport to go back to Butte, his car came...