Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospective employer, a circus performer named Louis Weitzman, agreed to try the boy out. He led him up a ladder to a platform 40 ft. in the air. "Just walk behind me," said Weitzman as he started out on the high wire, "and when I bend a little, you get up and do a handstand on my shoulders." Karl Wallenda looked down. "I can't," he said. "You do it," said Weitzman, "or I'll shake you off the wire...
...fossilized tracks under a layer of ancient volcanic ash that had been eroded by seasonal water. Most were made by animals, but Philip, the younger brother of Anthropologist Richard Leakey (TIME Cover, Nov. 7), spotted several prints that apparently were left by a creature much higher on the evolutionary ladder...
...fact, Moses expects tough competition all the way down the ladder against Princeton. "Every match is up in the air" he said yesterday...
...which succeed in overwhelming her: the hospital administrators, her skeptical fellow-surgeon lover (Michael Douglas), Crichton's tedious script, and her own French accent, which, despite her valiant attempts to obscure it, makes more comebacks than Napoleon. She does give Coma its interesting moments, however; when she climbs a ladder, the camera looks up her dress with unabashed voyeurism...
Number three--Ned Bacon vs. Gary Fogler: A couple of combat-experienced veterans, both have improved this season and moved up the ladder significantly. Bacon's near-perfect college record has been marred by two tough losses against Princeton...