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Outside the U.S., however, various kinds of synthetic ski surfaces have been more successful. A 400-meter nylon-covered ramp at Edinburgh's Hillend Ski Center is jammed with people during the winter months; so are the chloride-vinyl ski jumps and slalom courses of Tokyo's Yomuiriland. But it is in Brazil, where a tropical climate leaves no alternative, that plastic skiing has demonstrated its greatest appeal. In the past four years, 300,000 persons have driven the long dirt road that winds past lush palm, orange and banana trees to get to the President Medici...
Roaring down a race track in Atlanta, Motorcycle Daredevil Robert "Evel" Knievel took a practice jump over four panel trucks, overshot the landing ramp, and broke his back-for the third time in his career. Determined to ride the next day, broken back and all, Knievel asked the doctor, "If I were to jump so I'd land on the balls of my feet, not on my behind, so I wouldn't jar anything -what do you think?" The doctor didn't think much of it, so Knievel set off for the track in an ambulance, just...
...excellent supporting cast. Director David Wheeler stages the play without a pretention of proscenium--as if it were in his living room--and after 60 productions with the Theatre Company it might as well be. Set designer John Thornton has divided the thrust stage with a diagonal ramp into an upper and lower platform--everything from marching squads to jungle fights and a Saigon saloon fit on it so it must be good...
With a quick swerve to the right reminiscent of Steve McQueen in "Bullit," I took the ramp at a brisk 65 mph. Suddenly it dawned on me that I was going too fast. Screech, I drove my foot down on the brakes. Lulled into a false sense of security, my two friends awoke to find the car skidding and spinning out of control between the two guard rails. After one and a quarter exciting revolutions the car came to a stop that left us straddling the ramp, and, needless to say, a bit shaken...
...have got so bad that you kind of miss being pinched," complained a voluptuous blonde in pink veils last week. Madeleine Schmidbauer, 22, a winsome lieutenant in the guard of one of Munich's carnival princes for the past three years, agreed: "Formerly, when we came down the ramp, marching in step, we prided ourselves on being toy soldiers everyone wanted to play with. Now people look at us with the same disdain as they look at the Bundeswehr...