Word: motorcyclist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stories of the surgical reattachment of an arm, hand or foot after accidental amputation have reached medical journals from places as far apart as Boston and Canton. But rare indeed is the restorative surgery that can claim the success now reported from California. An Oakland motorcyclist whose leg was sliced through three inches above the ankle had his severed foot put back in place, and last week, more than three years after the operation, he was well on the way to walking normally...
...Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah rank high on any list of the world's most desolate places, but they have a special fascination for a special kind of fanatic: the speed demon. This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h. and walked away from the wreck muttering: "I thought I had stopped." There was Betty Skelton, an advertising executive from Detroit, who set a ladies' land speed record of 277 m.p.h. There were the Summers brothers, Bob and Bill, who showed up with a car powered by four...
...hustings, she gestured toward her blue-rinsed grey hair, described herself as a daughter returning home in her old age, and asked plaintively: "If you fail to give me room, where can I go?" While the Socialists bustled about the countryside in a car preceded by a motorcyclist bearing a red flag, Madame Pandit toured the villages on foot and spent the last 25 days of the campaign living in a tent in the midst of the peasants...
...mile course at a record average speed of 129.1 m.p.h. It was the second victory in a month for aging (66) Automaker Enzo Ferrari, gave him a shot at the Grand Prix manufacturers' championship that he once monopolized but has not won since 1961. It also gave ex-Motorcyclist Surtees 9 points toward the drivers' championship, moved him into third place behind Britain's Graham Hill and Scotland's defending champion Jimmy Clark, both of whom broke down at Monza. The point standings with three races to go (the U.S., Mexican, and South African Grand Prix...
BILLY AL BENGSTON, 29, an ardent affluent-society motorcyclist (he owns four), goes in for concentric emblems, usually centered on a symbol such as a sergeant's stripes. Bengston sometimes uses an auto-body painter's spray gun to lay on glossy hot-rodder colors. "I use a lot of the concepts used in motorcycles," he says. "It's a kind of companionship I can understand...