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There is a new look in bicycles for boys and girls: shoulder-high "monkey bars," which, if they do anything, slow the rider down by making him sit bolt upright, thereby increasing wind resistance; smaller, 20-inch wheels, which are supposed to make for easier pedaling; elongated "banana seats," which may or may not provide passengers a more comfortable perch than the handlebars. But this spring there is a new gadget that may save a kid's life...
...found himself sitting only one foot away from the hole, on the par-four eighteenth. Yale's number-one player, sophomore Jim Rogers, was also shooting his fourth shot, but he was over 30 feet away in the rough. Campen calmly watched Rogers putt the ball through the three inch grass, over the apron, across the green, and into...
...acting out the complexities of the plot. Nureyev, despite a wig that looked like a wet dishrag, was a compelling and thoroughly convincing hero. Free of exaggeration, he masterfully portrayed Romeo as a roustabout turned rapt lover. The evening, however, belonged to Fonteyn. Though 45, she was every inch the teenage Juliet, brimming with the dart and dash of adolescence. She began by cavorting kittenishly with a rag doll, then movingly matured into a woman in the throes of first love. Backed by sumptuous sets and costumes and an excellent supporting cast, most notably David Blair as Mercutio, Nureyev...
...Grand Rapids, Mich., 56-year-old Earl Dove battened down his home, and started to move his family into the basement; the next thing he remembers is finding himself on a heap of splintered lumber, 50 ft. from the house. In Goldwater, Mich., a four-inch piece of straw flew like a steel-tipped arrow and imbedded itself in a woman's neck. In Strongsville, Ohio, near Cleveland, a baby was sucked out of a house and hurled to its death-still in its bassinet. The same vacuum pressure pulled the wedding ring from the finger of the baby...
During this movement, students wrote criticism of the school administration and pasted them up on the walls around the school grounds. After a few days, every inch of open space in the school was covered over more than once, and people began to climb on ladders to paste up criticisms. The soccer field was draped with clothslines to supported the flood of messages. When the public address system announced the location of especially good suggestions, the students and teachers crowded around from all over the school. The administration officials spent hours going from poster to poster, taking notes...