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King Everest slides down a metal slope on skis-on his hands. Madame Gena puts a ring full of camels through high-stepping Bactrian high jinks. Unus performs the impossible on one finger atop a light globe. Harold Alzana teeters through several near falls on his 40-ft. high wire. And the Zacchinis, their cannon now billed as "atomic," are launched in a flash of gun powder into a safety net and "recovered in time for the next countdown." Newest star is blonde Evelyn Currie, 20, who is appearing with Ringling Bros...
...Volvo (Latin for "I roll") promises Swedish buyers that it will repair accident damage free during the first five years of a car's life. Saab tests its cars by subjecting them to the subArctic climate of Lapland, once rolled a car (with driver) down a Norwegian ski slope to demonstrate its safety features...
During storms the party was forced to dig snow caves into the sides of the slope. Though the icy roofs dropped several inches daily, they rarely collapse. To avoid snow slides caused by melting, much of the climbing was done after sunset...
Starting last November, Cuban bulldozers have cleared a network of military access roads, which slope down from the surrounding hills (where Castro observation posts and gun emplacements lurk) right up to Gitmo's 24-mile fence. The mined roads lead 26 miles westward to the home base of a Castro armored pool of 51-ton Stalin tanks and 155-mm., 40-m.p.h. motorized artillery...
...created a minor sensation wherever she appeared in her new stretch pants. Next year the Bogners sold only 1,000 pairs of the pants, but have since stretched their output, last year sold more than 120,000 all over the world-many to clients who will never see a slope steeper than the spiral ramp of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum...