Word: bernardino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by MAURO BOLOGNINI Screenplay by RAFFAELE ANDREASSI, MARIO AROSIO, TULLIO PINELLI and BERNARDINO ZAPPONI...
Died. Hugo Zacchini, 77, a circus performer who, while musing about the trajectory of the grenades he had to duck as an Italian artilleryman during World War I, conceived his famous human cannonball act; of a stroke; in San Bernardino, Calif. Using a compressed-air cannon, Zacchini made his maiden flight (some 130 ft.) in Cairo in 1922. In 1929, John Ringling lured him to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where he performed for another 32 years...
...Bernardino, Calif.* 27. Houston 28. Phoenix 29. Akron 30. Cincinnati* 31. Honolulu 32. Dayton 33. New York 34. Dallas 35. Kansas City* 36. Indianapolis 37. Chicago...
...themselves, suffered no loss of life or limb, and racked up a total of only twelve tickets. To Winner Cline, the worst hazards after rain and a sandstorm were unwary rabbits. "I got one at 130 m.p.h., and another at 140 m.p.h., but it was the one at San Bernardino that did us in," he said, pointing to a cottontail crater on the Ferrari's fender...
...California's motorists heading east to Las Vegas, the gambling often began at San Bernardino, where a 225-mile superhighway starts across the Mojave Desert. The speed limit is 55 m.p.h., but so many drivers chanced dodging the California highway patrol that on holiday weekends an average of 450 persons ended up losers with traffic tickets...