Word: fairground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheer energy, historical savvy, wit and scrounging invention, Ruckus Manhattan is unique. Over the years, Grooms, Gross and their friends have been making their robust tableaux, always on a shoestring but never on such a scale. If one could envisage a fairground produced by Robert Crumb and Krazy Kat out of Dr. Caligari's Cabinet, this would be it. The Ruckus group are omnivores, infatuated with New York, and you are never allowed to forget it. Archie Peltier, an artist from Minneapolis, was responsible for most of the engineering, and his handiwork is impressive. People can walk up inside...
...Peking's splendidly decorated parks, acrobats, singers and dancers performed for the crowds. There were spectacular fireworks, the ever-popular lion dance, and elaborate fairground games. At one game, youngsters could take part in simulated shoot-downs of enemy aircraft; at another, engineering students could test their skills at a mock-up oil-drilling station. If they correctly manipulated the levers and buttons, a dark liquid gushed into...
Nearly 30 years have passed since Dana Andrews pursued Jeanne Grain across the Des Moines fairground to the accompanying strains of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Andrews is a grandfather by now, and Jeanne Grain makes the rounds of TV talk shows, but the state fairs of the Midwest remain almost immutable. From Des Moines, TIME'S David Wood reports on this year's extravaganza...
...units arrive in a town in large, brightly painted vans and set up their show with the efficiency of oldtime carnival hands. Recorded rock music pounds through the fairground to attract crowds, and balloons emblazoned HEALTH IS HAPPINESS are given away to children...
Lloyd Ruby was one of the first Indy men to do any road racing. Back in the early sixties he raced in the SCCA's fall pro series on the West Coast. In those days, Indy drivers drove at Indianapolis and the fairground ovals that made up the USAC circuit. SCCA, the sanctioning body that was road-racing oriented, had a circuit composed mostly of amateur races. NASCAR, the Southern stock car group, had nothing to do with either of them. Today, half of the USAC races are on road tracks rather than ovals. NASCAR runs some road races...