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...Lake Placid's run is a vestige of the 1932 Winter Olympics, and the only run in North America.) As the new boy on the course, Monti dutifully made two trial runs from the halfway mark before the officials would turn him loose. Scorning the U.S.-style steering wheel, he handled the steering ropes with the sensitive, iron hands of a jockey, hit speeds close to 90 m.p.h. At the 180° Shady Corner curve, he swung high on its sheer wall, then dropped surely down to the narrow slotted straight away to pick up precious speed. When...
...better," said the husky white settler from Kenya somewhat plaintively last week, "for us to let the African take the wheel of the bus as long as we can sit by his side and read the map, rather than wait until he throws us out?" For five years ambitious Michael Blundell, 52, head of the moderate New Kenya Group, has been urging his 65,000 fellow whites to accept a multiracial government before the colony's 6,000,000 blacks take over everything themselves. Last week, as the London conference on the future of Kenya was drawing...
...Wheel. Among the newer comics, from sickniks to social satirists, Joey stands alone. His wry, deadpan comments raise even the obvious to the realm of high comedy. At the Sands, in the midst of chaos and pure corn-Sinatra beating a bass drum that advertises his L.A. beanery, or Dean Martin drinking Scotch from an ice bucket-Joey can still be funny...
...stars are in Vegas for the filming of Frank's new movie, Ocean's II. But the nightly "meetings," says Frank in a masterfully mixed metaphor, "could not have come off without the Speaker of the House-Joey Bishop, the hub of the big wheel...
...doctors' orders) in Monaco. At Sir Winston's side was Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, owner of 42% of the Casino's stock. Churchill bought a modest stack of light blue ($1) chips. After two hours devoted to the impassive scrutiny of a spinning roulette wheel and the cards in another game called trente et quarante, the two departed. Churchill was an estimated $35 richer, Onassis $15 poorer. Two afternoons later Sir Winston was back, this time wagering $10 and $20 chips at the games. It went well for him. Without a trace of a smile...