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...mirage? There in the sand-blown, baking desert near Colton, Calif., it looked as though people were splashing and slaloming around on water skis without a motorboat to tow them. But when some 8,000 people drove up to stop and stare one day last week, they saw that it was really happening...
...acre park with a swimming pool, paddle-tennis courts, refreshment stands and palm trees. The 250-ft.-wide ski course runs beneath four towers that support an overhead steel cable, powered by a 74-h.p. diesel engine. At ten-second intervals it carries 77-ft. tow ropes past a carpeted dock, from which the skier launches himself to whoosh around the rectangular track at about 25 m.p.h. (for experts the speed can be upped to 38 m.p.h...
...shot 66 ft. 10½ in., hurling the discus 192 ft. 3 in., running 100 yds. in 10.3 sec. More than 100 colleges made him offers, and the University of Southern California assigned Old Grads Long and Parry O'Brien to take the prize prospect in tow. They proudly showed him the library, the dormitories, all those long-legged girls. Pity. They should have spent more time showing...
...gave Boston its first opportunity to hear Thompson's Last Words of David in its original version with orchestra, and his Frostiana with the orchestration prepared especially for this concert. He uses the winds, brass, and percussion effectively, and treats the strings not only as a body, but as tow choirs that can be separated or combined to produce a rich sound used so rarely in contemporary music...
Under heavy attack from the City Council all year, Rudolph appeared before the nine-man body and received more of the same yesterday. Councillor Andrew T. Trodden said that things which could easily he corrected-like one way streets that suddenly become tow way streets and stoplights that go off after midnight-caused many of the accidents...