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...everywhere. A broiling sun soon beat down on the havoc. Stranded children suffered from exposure and sunstroke. One family was rescued after spending four days holding on to high-tension wires just a few feet above the flood waters. At least a dozen people were treated for spider or snake bites after tarantulas and fer-de-lances fled their hiding places in flooded banana groves. An estimated 100,000 people have been left homeless by the hurricane...
September 8: Evel Knievel tries to clear Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a homemade rocket. He fails, parachutes to safety, and earns a guaranteed $6 million...
...giving way to exaggerated feelings, high suggestibility and impulsive, primitive behavior. These views, expanded and refined by later scholars, were amply illustrated last week in the crowd of 16,000 spectators who gathered to see Evel Knievel's fizzled but nonfatal attempt to rocket across Idaho's Snake River Canyon. The scene, as reported by TIME Correspondent Leo Janos...
...stick. A crowd of bikers, kept behind a chain-link fence, roared their approval, and moments later stomped on a U.P.I, reporter and ground out a cigarette butt on his forehead. Enraged by the surly Knievel's unavailability for interviews, reporters joked about "holding a pep rally for Snake Canyon," and one reporter, Larry McMullen of the Philadelphia Daily News, wrote: "Even though the canyon is the underdog, it is rapidly becoming a sentimental favorite...
...unless you happen to be into shopping at 3 a.m. or some other freakish hour. Then, at least, you probably are getting the best bargains of any stores open. The atmosphere at Store 24 is, well, different from most grocery stores. From the street you expect to hear Indian snake charmers music--but what do you want...