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...curious and erroneous-or doctored?-cloud cover masking a remote area of Nepal, he bucks the Establishment to prove his suspicions, survives sundry assassination attempts and blows open a nasty conspiracy within the Company. He also manages a rather touching love affair and some motorcycle exploits worthy of Evel Knievel...
...hottest new product in home recreation," says Division Director Harold Roberts of Brunswick Corp., which makes Super Star and Skate King. "This is the Age of the Pinball!" exults Ross Scheer, an executive of Bally Manufacturing Corp., which makes Evel Knievel, one of the hottest games on the street. Worldwide sales of pins over the past five years have grown by up to 30% annually. Also booming are pinball rentals (at up to $135 a day) to party throwers, organizers of company picnics, and families who want to try a fast sample of the action. Used, reconditioned machines fetch...
Speaking of boxing, the Ali-Evangelista fight was the most exciting thing I've seen since Evel Knieval's jump over the Snake River Canyon a few years ago. On second thought, there may be more to that analogy than I thought. Maybe Ali, like Knievel, proved that he was over the hill. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that...
...wasn't the Snake River Canyon this time, but Daredevil Evel Knievel came a cropper anyway. CBS-TV had signed him up for a live 90-minute mini-Jaws show: he was to vault his Harley over a 64-ft.-wide tub full of "killer sharks." On a trial run before the show, Knievel made it over the sharks but skidded into a retaining wall in Chicago's International Amphitheater and for the 13th time in his frangible career broke some bones: the right forearm and the left collarbone (his 55th and 56th breaks). After putting...
...former college track star, finds that "the violence in sport is magnified by television. The fan can identify with violence in terms of what he would like to do with the forces he cannot control." And in a recent paper in the medical journal Pediatrics, three physicians reported an "Evel Knievel syndrome" -imitation of exhibitionism in sport. "Televised violence," explains the paper, "especially during sporting events and news reporting, is increasingly implicated in imitative and aggressive behavior exhibited by children...