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...real thrill is to leave civilization altogether. One of the best points of departure is Hanalei; from there Kauai helicopters (for a fee of $100 an hour) take picnickers or sightseers to visit the two-thirds of the island that is accessible no other way: the rim of the crater of long-dead Mount Waia-leale (with 400 to 800 inches of rain a year, the wettest spot on earth), the hidden beaches like Honopu and the Valley of the Lost Tribe on the Na Pali coast, populated today only by prancing mountain goats. Said Jackie, after she had picnicked...
...daily, 3,000,000 Sunday; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan. He once defined what made his tabloid sell: "The real appeal of the News is that it lights up the narrow routine of millions of lives with gleams from the great outside. Its readers thrill with second-hand emotion they will never know: they shudder from crimes they will never commit, they quiver with courage that shall never be theirs...
...bugged Terry was that people were forever comparing him with Joe. Since Terry had deliberately patterned himself after Baltimore's Johnny Unitas, the classiest-and probably the quietest-of pro quarterbacks, he wasn't sure that the other comparison was much of a compliment. So the biggest thrill of his high school career was beating Beaver Falls 41-21-scoring a touchdown in the process on an 82-yd. quarterback sneak. The film of that game, forwarded to Notre Dame by a scout, may well have been the one Ara Parseghian was idly viewing one day at South...
...most durable bandleader still hits 150 cities a year, playing mostly to packed houses. And so it was in Manhattan, where more than 900 of the faithful and 100 "Pennsylvanians" past and present gathered to toast Fred Waring's five decades on the bandstand. "The greatest thrill of my life," he said, and returned the salute by leading the Pennsylvanians in a nostalgic Waring blend of chorus and orchestra. Next week at 66, Fred's off on his 1966-67 country-wide swing, which he's calling "The First Fifty Years...
...Axelrod [July 29], TIME says "he delights in swimming in piranha-infested rivers just to prove that piranhas are not man-eaters." This is not in accord with my childhood memories of placing my hand against the glass wall of the piranha tank in the hometown aquarium for the thrill of watching these aggressive Lilliputians try to attack the hand...