Word: roped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really, is 50 or so colorful plastic cylinders slipped onto a piece of rope, and it only costs about 75? to make. But Sears, Roebuck, J.C. Penney and Montgomery Ward all carry the Lifeline jump rope (plus its special exercise booklet) for $4.95 a throw. These days, legions of Americans who are neither little girls nor prizefighters are jumping rope-and making Bobby Hinds an instant tycoon...
Hinds took up rope jumping as exercise in the late 1950s. In 1970 he began fashioning ropes in his basement to hand out to clients as favors. He strung little cylinders on a line to create a more stable jump rope that is resistant to twisting and swaying. Two years ago, he borrowed $30,000 and recruited family and friends to begin turning out ropes in volume. Today Hinds fills monthly orders averaging 200,000 ropes, all made-for a 23? piecework wage-by physically and mentally handicapped people recommended by seven "opportunity centers" in Madison. Hinds nets a neat...
...Hinds. "And I'm also very healthy mentally and physically, not to mention my wallet." To keep those three facets in trim, Hinds demonstrates the Lifeline every chance he gets. Just last month in Washington, D.C., he set a new world "speed-jumping" record by skipping over his rope 63 times in ten seconds...
Smith and Bull are one of the odder couples in publishing. Irish Catholic Smith grew up in a Manhattan tenement, quit school at 15 to deliver flowers, drive a cab, and rope cattle in Nevada-all the while writing poems and short stories. Eventually, he worked his way through New York University. A $7,500-a-year fireman 13 years ago, Smith is worth nearly $1 million today, thanks to book earnings and the sale of the movie rights for Engine Co. 82 to Paramount Pictures. He drives to the firehouse in a Mercedes and lives...
...helped the U.S. celebrate its Bicentennial? It can be most unromantic, or at least uncomfortable. The below-decks area reeks of a mixture of boiled cabbage, floor cleaner, diesel fumes and sweat. Quarters are often hot and always crowded, as human comforts give way to the need for stowing rope, extra sails, vital blocks and rigging. Aboard the Irish Phoenix (left), caged chickens provide fresh eggs for meals that are generally good, if not graciously served. Gently swaying hammocks on the Norwegian Christian Radich (below left) provide less jarring sleep for trainees than do officers' bunks, which are usually...