Coastermania sparks nationwide roller coaster boom
Oldtimers recall the Cyclone at Coney Island as the high point of amusement park history while a new generation races to build faster taller rides. The current boom features steel coasters with loops and corkscrews, such as Rebel Yell and Montezuma's Revenge, drawing long lines and rival park hype.
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Los Angeles
Oldtimers
New York
Coney Island
West Virginia
Gary Kyriazi
Kyriazi
Ohio
Cedar Point
Arrow Development Co
Mountain View
Calif
Knott's Berry Farm
Anaheim
Arrow
Carter cuts vacation as firemen join roof rescue
President Carter cuts two days from his western vacation to press energy legislation and a defense veto plan. White House says he aims to push crucial natural gas compromise and address a Sept. 7 House vote while Congress is in recess. In Wyoming and Indiana reports, striking firefighters aided a theater rescue amid heavy rains and a roof collapse.
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Carter
Grand Teton National Park
Wyo
Washington
White House
Jody Powell
Congress
Powell
Capitol Hill
House
Sirslahiors Locali
James Freeman
Wiew
Ballinger
Nixon hosts fundraiser at La Casa Pacifica in California
Former president Richard M. Nixon, making his first political appearance since resigning, hosted a fundraising reception for the Republican Party at his seaside La Habra estate, with about 420 guests and no press access. He offered reminiscences of his Orange County years and gave no clear hint of future plans.
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San Clemente
Calif
Foret
Richard M. Nixon
Robert Badham
Nixon
Orange County
la Habra
Badham
United Republican Finance Committee
Pat
la Casa Pacifica
White House
Growing racial tensions in Mississippi towns report
Racial tensions rise in three Mississippi towns as Ku Klux Klan rallies grow louder in response to black boycotts of white merchants. This weekend twelve pickets were arrested in a boycott march, including four Roman Catholic nuns. at a Klan gathering four Klansmen exposed their faces by removing hoods.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Ku Klux Klan
New South
Alfred
Skip” Robinson
United League of Mississippi
Tupelo
Okolona
United League
Lexington
Fire Department
Phony bomb threat diverts jetliner to Canada
A phony bomb threat diverted United Airlines Flight 179, a DC-8 from Newark and Denver, to Vancouver with 152 aboard. RCMP held an unidentified woman on suspicion. no bomb was found. The plane later resumed to Seattle amid cheering by passengers and onlookers.
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Seattle
United Airlines
Canada
Vancouver
British Columbia
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Naomi Potach
Boston
United Flight 179
Newark
N.J
Denver
Seattle- Tacoma International
Ron Carlson
RCMP
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Carey
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Lew Loving
Stoffer-Sanner
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Gerber
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Betty Crocker
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