Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been killed. For the 1964 Olympics, an Austrian engineer named Paul Aste, 46, a onetime bobber himself, designed a narrower, 13-curve run in the Alpine resort of Igls, just above the Tyrolean capital of Innsbruck. Aste thought it might be a trifle slower than the slick Lake Placid chute, but far safer. He miscalculated on both counts...
...Foyt, Goldsmith and the others dueled for the lead. Bumper to bumper the cars snarled around the circuit, hitting close to 150 m.p.h. on the straightaways, sliding boldly through the narrow turns. For some, the pace proved too fast. Clem Proctor's Pontiac hit an oil slick and leaped a 3½-ft.-high guardrail. Jim Paschal's Plymouth spun out of control, turned four somersaults and plunged over a steep embankment. Incredibly, neither driver was badly hurt. Streaking through Riverside's tricky S-curves in third gear at more than 100 m.p.h., Gurney grabbed the lead...
...jumping is something like walking on water-the first step is the hardest. The view from the top is discouraging: the ice-slick starting slope falls away at an abrupt 35° for take-off speeds up to 60 m.p.h.. and the ambulance at the end of the landing run seems so far away that it might be a Tootsie Toy. Once a jumper starts, there is no turning back: a wobbly takeoff, a sudden updraft. a slight miscalculation can mean a bone-shattering spill -and many a star of this perilous sport admits to frequent tussles with panic...
...measure of Alec Guinness's achievement in The Horse's Mouth is a slick short that the Brattle has chosen to show with it called A Day in the Life of the Artist. This is an uncompromisingly snide little gibe at the bad and calculating modern artist, and, obviously, it takes its cue from The Horse's Mouth, if it has not, indeed, been directly plagiarized from it (the techniques of mockery--ironic use of background music, for example--are certainly the same...
...state was West Virginia-but West Virginia breeds basketball stars as lavishly as Texas turns out football players, is the home of such slick-shooting pros as Jerry West and Hot Rod Hundley. The way the Mountaineers at West Virginia University look at it Thorn may turn out to be the best...