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Snowmobiles offer more than utility service. They are capable of speeds up to 35 m.p.h., and a skillful driver can skitter and skid them through the turns of a slalom course. Versatile body English is needed on the sharper curves, and in case of a spill the engine is equipped with a deadman throttle that shuts it off and keeps the doodlebug from roaring off empty down the hill. Snowmobile rallies will be held this month in Tuftonboro, N.H., Tomahawk, Wis., Forest Lake, Minn., Skowhegan, Me., and Boonville, N.Y., with prizes for slalom racing, hill climbing, speed runs and cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Sit-Down Skiing | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...chips, is Bert Lahr, shawl and all. Even semi-show-business people like Mickey Spillane are doing commercials. Mickey dashes out in the dead of night and jumps into a waiting car that contains a remarkable blonde. "Wherever this man goes, he packs a .38," says the announcer. Then Spill ane holds up a bar of Lifebuoy soap, which is advertised as giving "38-hour protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Selling Point | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

Captain Bill Crain also took a spill and finished 129th; soccer player Keith Chiappa was Harvard's fifth scorer in 132nd place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hewlett Mushes Through 4-Inch Snow To Take Fifth Place in NCAA Meet | 11/24/1964 | See Source »

...exercise. "I just wanted to see how afraid I'd be," he explained, "and to train myself not to be." When war came, Patton's revolutionary theories of seemingly reckless advance ("Let the enemy worry about his flanks") often proved to be the best way not to spill blood but to spare it. Besides, if he had had his own way, World War II would have cost but one casualty: it would have been just a duel between Field Marshal Rommel and General Patton. "The armies could watch," he said. "If I killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War Lover | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...death lance churns into the sanctuary, tears The gun-blue swingle, heaving like a flail, And hacks the coiling life out: it works and drags And rips the sperm-whale's midriff into rags, Gobbets of blubber spill to wind and weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of the Particular | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

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