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...fashioned skiing may still be the best way to whoosh down a snowy slope, but thrill seekers are rapidly inventing new-fashioned ways of descent. Just as snowmobiling has become the latest U.S. fad (TIME, Feb. 17), the sport of ski bobbing has caught on in Europe. Ski bobs range in price from $100 to $150, look like small bicycles on skis, weigh about 17 lbs., and can readily be dismantled to fit into car trunks. The tubular metal frame has handle bars connected to a short pivoting ski in front, and a well-padded saddle moored to a longer...
...Whoosh. Becaud studied piano and composition, and was making a meager living writing cabaret songs when a friend suggested in 1953 that he ought to sing them as well. "When I told my wife I was going to sing," he recalls, "she said, 'You're not going to do that!' 'Yes, I am,' I said. We laughed for three hours...
Wifely laughter or no, his first performances electrified Paris. Writing all his own songs with the aid of a platoon of lyricists, he found himself swamped in acclaim. "The public took to me, and whoosh," he says. "I sang at this little cafe, Chez Tonton, and at the same time I made records. My price went up, and I still couldn't accept all the offers. This was all too fast for the classical guy I was-two, three, four five songs I had to write all at once, and yet I still needed new material...
...Battle of Hastings 1066-Bottle of Guinness 1966," frothed a thousand billboards. "Whoosh! It's another big breakaway conquest," proclaimed the makers of Bri Nylon clothing in ads picturing mounted Bri Nyloned models setting forth against the Saxons; another version of the battle showed the Norman warriors armed with Desoutter Power Tools. Heinz offered its soup buyers a chance to enter an archery contest in which the first 1,066 winners would be rewarded with Kenwood Chef food mixers and Arrow shirts. And, in ads boosting its Neo-Medrone Acne Lotion, the Upjohn pharmaceutical company captioned a drawing...
...Norman Huggins, 36, of Sumter, S.C., knew his search for North Vietnamese SAM sites was over for the day. He saw a finger-shaped island below him, surrounded by a wrinkled sea studded with enemy junks. The only hope for survival lay in his yellow and black ejection handles. Whoosh went the canopy, pow went the 37-mm. cartridge under his seat, pop went the parachute. And for the next 40 minutes, Norm Huggins fought for his life...