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Phil, who is friendly with nearly everyone on the tour, including the Soviets, ignored this nonsense. His mood seemed easy and contented. Downhill racing takes nerve, he said, but not much else. "I like the speed, the thrill, but otherwise it's boring," he added, "a bit like Evel Knievel on his motorcycle." He was glad that the deciding race of the season was the giant slalom, the technically most demanding of the races. Next? asked a reporter. "A summer doing absolutely no skiing," was the answer. Then Mahre, with a grin, returned to the subject at hand...
...more you learn about Ned Coll the more you are certain he is a lunatic. Looking wildly around as he speaks, waving his hands madly or clenching his fists in manic frustration, he is the Evel Kneivel of activism, a man who has performed daring stunts in the name of social causes. He fasted for 40 days to call attention to the plight of the elderly in Hartford, Conn., he walked from Hartford to Washington to debate a fuel bill for the poor before Congress, he sloshed along the shores of Rhode Island all the way to Greenwich to protest...
HIGHLIGHTS: The Harvard coaches awarded middie Gordie Nelson with the first-ever Evel Knievel award for guts and play above and beyond the call of duty. Nelson scored three crafty goals and an assist...
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...shaving of the sort that pile up beneath an ineptly managed saw. Ill-assorted, illarranged, they seem simply to have been swept up and deposited at random beween the songs in a film that cannot really be said to have been written or directed at anything like a professional evel...