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...roller coaster, whip and illusion rooms is an ocnophil, from a Greek verb meaning to shrink from or hang back. The opposite, or philobat ("one who loves to go places"), not only gets a kick out of these machines, but is the type that becomes a racing driver, stunt flyer, animal tamer, explorer or Astronaut...
...buyers named by the Cuban envoy: Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the "Black Eagle of Harlem," who started a spectacular career by stunt parachuting over Harlem in red tights, playing a saxophone...
After a quick study of the management proposal, McDonald replied: "I reject it out of hand." He accused the companies of a "publicity stunt," said, "Before the month is out [the industry] will be embarrassed by record riches which it can neither explain nor conceal...
Women drivers copped first place in two of the six classifications. Stunt Driver Patricia Jones drove her Dodge Coronet to victory in the Low Medium-Price Class; Hollywood Secretary Mary Hauser zipped her Chevrolet Biscayne into top honors in the Low-Price, 6-Cylinder Class. Only a broken tie rod and penalty for lost time while she repaired it kept Restaurant Owner Mary Davis of Hollywood, in a Plymouth Belvedere, from winning first place in a third class. (She placed second.) In 13 individual races, in which men and women raced against each other and drove identical makes and models...
Three Middlebury College freshmen were arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing property worth $2000 from Business School dormitories Saturday night. The three admitted raiding rooms at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University as part of a fraternity initiation stunt, according to police...