Word: knievel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a lot of things to think about before Snake River," said Motorcycle Daredevil Evel Knievel in Toronto last week. Moments later, the two-wheeled wonder eliminated one worry when he arced his cycle over 13 Mack trucks and landed safely 40 yards away, breaking his own world's truck-jumping record. All of which was better than he did in Dallas last February, when he cleared only eleven trucks and broke his back. Despite his $65,000 fee, Knievel's Toronto show was clearly only a tune-up for the big one: his planned...
...leap from California to Currier House, might not phase Evil Knievel's desires, but it devastated me. I was overwhelmed. The transition from barefeet and beaches to Top-Siders and cobblestones was easy enough to deal with. But it was the personal confrontation with Harvard people who were both mystified and threatened by my homestate that jarred my puerile sensibilities about Harvard into Step 1 of the adaptation process. I learned to ignore...
...reporters' questions. To show off his new skills, Ron even gave a demonstration to a posse of reporters on a back road, only to run out of gas and | wheeze to a halt under the unblinking gaze of a herd of Herefords. Said one wry observer: "After Evel Knievel has jumped the Grand Canyon, Ron is going to top his act-he's going to try to jump the credibility...
...with himself aboard a British army bike, which he had named George VII. During the '50s and '60s, Hell's Angels on their Harley-Davidsons turned in convincing performances as Visigoths at the gates of suburbia. Easy Rider could not keep off the grass, and Evel Knievel, that star spangled Icarus of the carnival circuit, gives young minibike owners potentially lethal delusions of grandeur. But now, during the lull in the great gas panic of '74, comes a 46-year-old Minnesotan and writer of computer manuals, who makes the motorcycle not only respectable but also...
Wide World of Sports. While Moorer dodges bullets on Channel 4, Evel Knievel will jump over tractor-trailer trucks (11 of them) next door. At least, like Moorer, he will try. Ch. 5, 4:30 p.m. 1 1/2 hours...