Word: headstands
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...squat as a fire watcher on a mountain in Washington. The mountain across the valley from Kerouac's cabin, when seen from upside down, looks like a "hanging bubble in the illimitable ocean of space." Why is it seen from upside down? Because the author is doing a headstand. Why is he standing on his head? Because he has become interested in Buddhism, and this is his notion of how Buddhists behave...
...imaginary opponents. "Time!" calls a handler, and Liston begins to whale away in earnest at his sparring partners. "Time!" again, and Liston switches his attack to the heavy punching bag. Then he skips rope (to the tune of Night Train), winds up his workout with a dramatic, neck-wrenching headstand on a rubbing table...
Died. Richard Allen Knight, 49, café socialite, once brilliant lawyer (disbarred); in Manhattan. Great-headed Texan Knight, whose early success (1928 earnings: $80,000) began boring him into his cups, embarked on a series of well-publicized didos (most famed: a headstand at the 1939 opening of the Metropolitan Opera...
...third casualty of the newly instituted conditioning classes was hung up yesterday afternoon when Charles W. Joyce '44 of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Dunster House sprained his back while trying to execute a "headstand...
...America what is needed for the war effort. . . ." ∙ ∙ Parachutist Max Schmeling will referee a prize fight in Brussels next week. He's still on "recovery leave." ∙ ∙ When veteran Speed Flyer Laura Ingalls landed at Albuquerque her landing gear crumpled and the ship did a headstand. Isolationist Laura, uninjured, promptly blamed her defective landing gear on "this system of priorities...