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...improbable easy rider. At San Clemente, the President's press secretary Ron Ziegler, 35, has abandoned his car and makes the 16-mile run between the Western White House and the Laguna Beach press headquarters by Honda CB-360. Ziegler, donning crash helmet and tennis shoes, leaps on the borrowed bike and threads his way through traffic more easily than he picks his way through 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...
Gary Klein, an MIT student and a Fuji rider, had to wait for the final sprint to beat the rest of the chasing pack and capture third...
John Baldo, a fourth strong rider from Harvard, decided against entering the grueling 100-mile race because he did not feel adequately prepared. Although Baldo has done his best to stay in condtion, the requirements of thesis writing have made it difficult...
...official White House dinner (in honor of the Latin American foreign ministers), even when the boss singled her out. Said President Nixon: "We welcome Mrs. Nancy Kissinger on her first visit as the wife of the Secretary of State." Perhaps feeling that he had overdone it, he added a rider: "She's a little liberal, but otherwise she is all right." Then he underlined his doubts: "Don't interpret the word liberal too literally either...
...press. T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) terminated his romance 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...