Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking off from a 6-ft.-high ski jump at full speed is strictly for the experts (last week at Lancaster, Bob Fortin set an unofficial world's jumping record of 67 ft. 7 in.). Says Maine Resort Owner Alan Ordway, who compares the thrills of snowmobiling to riding a good thermal in a glider: "They've set everybody's age back 20 years; a guy of 60 figures that he's got 20 good years left if he can ride one of these things...
...sleds behind them. There is a practical side to snowmobiles too. In the Western states and New England they are replacing snowshoes for telephone linemen, country doctors, trappers, game wardens, farmers and oilmen. But for all their sudden popularity, snowmobiles have their foes. Police are worried because teen-agers ride them out to vandalize remote, untenanted cottages. On the highways, their low profile makes them hard to see, easy to hit. Flights from three Maine airports have been disrupted in the last month by snowmobilers who found the snow-clad tarmac irresistible...
...nine minutes of college match time--compared to six minutes in high school--that confront a wrestler have changed many an aggressive wrestler into a staller content to get ahead in points and artfully ride out time for a decision...
...Henjyoji loses "a sense of competing" when he tries merely to ride out a decision. And when he loses that edge, he loses the match...
Antonioni is intensely serious about life and about art. His new film, Blow-Up, deals with the difficulty of commitment to a worthwhile life through art. Antonioni's fashion photographer hero, a 25-year-old dissipated cherub brilliantly played by David Hemmings, has learned how to ride the crest of the mod culture wave; he got rich quick, drives a Rolls, and takes sex and marijuana with the casual detachment that marks him and his kind. He seems, as Time describes, "a little fungus that is apt to grow in a decaying society...