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Malibu Grand Prix is the name of the game, and it is not tame-though it may be less hazardous than roller-coaster riding. No mini-Mario has been killed or seriously injured in the 6 million Malibu laps to date (though one nervous driver sprained a finger on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Le Mans for the Masses | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

The half-mile track is a series of tight, tough curves-carrousels, S's, hairpins and hard rights and lefts-30 in all, with only 80 meters of straightaway in the whole labyrinth. Though the car can seldom reach 40 m.p.h., to the driver, with eyes only three feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Le Mans for the Masses | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Women came to running more slowly and shyly than men. They were even less accustomed than men to the pain of exercise. Breasts jounced and drew hoots from male motorists. The all-important running one-handed noseblow, a maneuver performed without Kleenex, was unladylike. When Judy Sanford, 33, a Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Ready, Set ...Sweat! | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

Business firms have latched onto the new fitness with unmistakable sincerity. It is a backward business organization, in fact, that does not subsidize some kind of aerobics program at least for its executives. Fumble-fingered. soft ball, bowling and Ping Pong used to be the extent of business athletics, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Ready, Set ...Sweat! | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

In his new film, The World's Greatest Lover, he plays a doltish Midwestern baker who goes to Hollywood and changes his name to Rudy Valentine. When his wife (played by Carol Kane) lets the bathtub overflow in the couple's posh hotel suite, Wilder passes it off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 30, 1977 | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

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