Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Best look before leaping: Evel Knievel's self-promotion before his Sept. 8 trip over the Snake River Canyon, Idaho...
...have a lot of things to think about before Snake River," said Motorcycle Daredevil Evel Knievel in Toronto last week. Moments later, the two-wheeled wonder eliminated one worry when he arced his cycle over 13 Mack trucks and landed safely 40 yards away, breaking his own world's truck-jumping record. All of which was better than he did in Dallas last February, when he cleared only eleven trucks and broke his back. Despite his $65,000 fee, Knievel's Toronto show was clearly only a tune-up for the big one: his planned...
...take heart, you ain't seen nothing yet. Seventeen hundred freshman of the Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1978 still have to fight each other and the registrar and then run the snake-like gauntlet of group representatives peddling their wares before they can officially say they are Harvard students...
...rink keeps much of the noise level at games to a minimum, as the usual over-zealous screams are replaced with polite applause. Face it, most alumni (notice not all alumni) cannot afford to be rowdy. Watson Rink is not in any real danger of becoming a "snake pit" like the rinks at St. Lawrence, Dartmouth, Clarkson, Cornell or a number of other colleges with nationally-rated hockey squads...
...also a convenient escape for Ford from the Washington snake pit. But he was rarely allowed to forget Watergate for long. As he put it, he had "to walk a very fine line." Occasionally, he stepped over it. At first, he was almost an unabashed apologist for the President's defense strategy and once even used language supplied by White House speechwriters for a shrill attack on "groups like the AFL-CIO, the Americans for Democratic Action and other powerful pressure organizations." He accused them of "waging a massive propaganda campaign against the President of the United States." In subsequent...