Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breezy hell of it, living out some shabby fantasy of success. The drivers are all portrayed by real stunt drivers, which gives the cast a unifying verisimilitude and a certain brazen clumsiness in the expository scenes. These are scant, presumably because everyone is more comfortable behind the wheel. But even the various automobile stunts begin to lose their punch the third time around. The plot, almost inevitably, concerns the one driver who wants to push the risk a little further, and how fate slaps him down. Along this weary route some good redneck ambiance has been provided, especially...
Petkevich first conceived of the skating show three years ago when he underwent X-rays on his knees and noticed the number of children restricted to wheel chairs at the Children's Hospital...
...buying spree that city people may consider peculiar. New machines are the Cadillacs of a farmer's life. Already, Plemel has bought a $1,400 gardening tractor for his lawn, a $7,000 utility tractor for his barnyard and a $25,000, four-wheel-drive tractor-complete with air conditioning, stereo and a contour seat designed by President John F. Kennedy's back specialist-for his fields...
...their prisoners managed to escape in the confusion. But when the train stopped at Vienna, the others were hustled aboard a Volkswagen bus owned by the Austrian railroad. With the captured customs officer at the wheel, the bus rushed to Schwechat airport on the outskirts of the city. The Austrians were so anxious to avoid bloodshed that police cars, alerted to what had happened, escorted the bus to the airport instead of trying to stop...
Hard as it might seem for a casino operator to run in the red, S.B.M. did just that in two recent years, and barely broke even in another. But now the wheel of fortune has spun to the black again. A few days ago, S.B.M.'s president, jovial little Prince Louis de Polignac, announced a profit of $2.5 million for the year ended last March 31 and a 40% rise in the price of S.B.M. stock, to $15.50. No one was more pleased than his third cousin, Prince Rainier, known to Americans as the husband of elegant Movie Star...