Word: wheels
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Other screen games use different means to add to the challenge. A race driving game now being test-marketed by Atari projects the view from the cockpit of a Grand Prix car negotiating the hairpin curves of the track at Le Mans. Manning a phony steering wheel, accelerator and gear shift, the player tries to complete the circuit as many times as possible without "spinning out" before the time limit expires. The simulation, complete with the sounds of squealing brakes and revving engines, is so realistic, Atari executives report, that "we've watched guys leaving the wheel with sweat...
While the wheel has been used for 5000 years, the bicycle was not developed until the last century. Will Baron von Drais de Sauerbach ever go down in history with Henry Ford? God knows he deserves to. The Baron's 1816 bicycle was a little crude, but it developed quickly. By 1884 it had evolved into a 21.5 pound cruising machine a point beyond which little improvement has been possible (today most bikes still weigh over 30 pounds...
Tired of the machinations of Charley Finely. Sick of Bob Short's ridiculous franchise hopping. Repulsed by a designated hitter rule that gives cripples Orlando "Cha Cha" Cepeda and Tony Bad Wheel Oliva a new lease at the plate. Then your only possible alternative to that sham of an American "League" is the pure baseball of senior circuit...
...chemicals are tight, fabricated parts are extremely tight," complains William V. Luneburg, AMC's blunt-spoken president, who sometimes badgers suppliers personally for quick deliveries. "When you have the opportunity in your grasp and you cannot make it materialize, it is a bit frustrating." Still, he concedes, "the wheel of fortune is turning right at the moment...
...come to the town and taken up the carpenter's trade and produced all this strange variety of ornament: the rising (or setting?) sun shape, the cart-wheel, the star pattern, the pagoda like shapes or one we just called the Spruce St. Variety. There's probably a folk-art monograph and foundation grant in it: "Varieties of the Eave Ornament in the Southeastern U.S. 1880-1920." With color pictures. Out of boredom we began classifying types and snapping a few pictures--to the disbelief and irritation of women on porches who thought we were photographing something going on behind...