THE BATTALION
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1980
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CHICAGO — On weekdays, Allen Ambrosini is a
mild-mannered registration supervisor at the Uni
versity oflllinois. Come weekends and vacations, he
travels hundreds of miles for wild rides on America’s
roller coasters.
Ambrosini says he has spent his life “in search of
the ultimate roller coaster.”
He has ridden 168 of them in the United States,
Canada and Mexico— most of them more than once,
crewmen some a record-breaking number of times,
afsomepas F° r instance, he made it into the Texas Book of
World Records in June by riding the Judge Roy
Scream at Six Flags over Texas in Arlington for 23 1 /2
hours, with only a few short “restroom” breaks.
“When you’re on a roller coaster you get so many
physical sensations — weightlessness, extreme
pressure — it’s like you’re soaring through the air,
flying,” Ambrosini said.
“You feel like you’re superman. You lose all touch
with the ground. You lose touch with the world.”
The 32-year-old supervisor at the U of I Chicago
Circle campus explained people who ride coasters
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riding coasters repeatedly without experiencing diz
ziness or upset stomachs. Rather, he thrives on “get
ting into the rhythm of the motion and becoming one
with the machine.
“The most important thing to me is having the
feeling you get that you’ve left your stomach at the
I°P °f a bill as you re going down,” Ambrosini said.
It s a tingling sensation that starts in your stomach
and goes throughout your body.”
This sought-after feeling is elusive. So Ambrosini’s
search goes on.
Typical weekends consist of long drives to amuse
ment parks that happen to have good coasters, usual
ly within 600 miles of Chicago. During a recent
17-day vacation, Ambrosini trekked 5,000 miles
around the nation to visit 19 parks and ride 42 roller
coasters.
Some have called him a “coaster freak,” “coaster
nut and “coaster fiend,” but he prefers the label
“coaster aficionado.”
Ambrosini is editor of Coaster World, the maga
zine of the American Coaster Enthusiasts. The club
began with a handful of members in June 1978 and
now claims more than 600 members in North Amer
ica, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.
He rode more than 60 roller coasters this summer,
but the highlight was the marathon aboard the Judge
Roy Scream.
Of the coasters he has ridden, Ambrosini ranks as
his top five: the Texas Cyclone at Astroworld, Hous
ton; Mr. Twister at Elitch Gardens, Denver; the
Cyclone at Coney Island, New York; the Thunder
bolt at Kennywood Park, Pittsburgh, and the Wild
cat at Idora Park, Youngstown, Ohio.
McQueen called better
United Press International
SANTA MARIA, Mexico — Actor
Steve McQueen, undergoing treat
ment for incurable lung cancer, has
improved since arriving at a Mexican
hospital three months ago, contrary
to earlier reports, says a doctor.
The Plaza Santa Maria General
Hospital physician, who requested
he not be identified, said, “when he
(McQueen) first came here, he
couldn’t walk and looked like he was
going to die. To me, he looks better
than when he first arrived.”
The doctor’s assessment contra
dicts earlier reports that the 50-year-
old actor was in severe pain and near
death at the heavily-guarded medic
al complex.
The doctor also said McQueen was
being treated with laetrile, a con
troversial drug extracted from apri
cot pits and used to treat cancer, and
was receiving up to two injections of
a painkiller.
A spokesman for McQueen who
disclosed last week that the actor was
suffering from a rare form of cancer
said laetrile was not part of the treat
ment.
The Mexican doctor said
McQueen is now able to walk under
his own power and is gaining weight.
“He doesn’t seem to be in much
pain, or at least he doesn’t show it,”
he said. “He gets around fine under
his own power and sometimes goes
out in a car.”
“ M cQueen looks like a hippie, ” he
said, “like the character he played in
‘Papillion’ and the hospital absolute
ly doesn’t want any photos taken of
him.”
The 100-acre medical facility, on
the U.S.-Mexican border overlook
ing the Pacific Ocean, was being pat
rolled by Mexican police with orders
to arrest and jail trespassers.
Reporters and photographers
from several countries have con
verged on the hospital seeking infor
mation about the actor and a chance
to snap his picture.
McQueen, a highly-paid screen
idol whose best known films include
“The Great Escape” and “Bullitt,”
was moved from one trailer to
another at the clinic on Friday be
cause of fears his treatment would be
disturbed by the news media.
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ion, there*® BEIRUT, Lebanon — Oil industry reports say Iran and Iraq have
Buffered billions of dollars in damage to their oil facilities, but Saudi
Ivipir the sp Arabia’s willingness to pump more crude oil will make up enough of the
n Red Sou: production to avert substantial oil shortages or price hikes in the
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Damage to oil installations and equipment, as well as weaponry,
ill undoubtedly exceed $20 billion,” the authoritative economic
eekly An-Nahar Arab Report and Memo says.
Iraq might be able to draw on its financial reserves to rebuild its
tohimas™ m 'l> tar y machine, its refineries and petrochemical complexes, but
ite thisyeal ^ ran ’ w ‘ t ^ 1 * ts meager holdings, will find this difficult without increasing
leech toH«l( ! Production.”
ipparentlvs 1 The report said the war should provide a financial windfall for
House siar# estern manufacturers: “The industrial countries, including the
i senator, i: T S.S.R., will receive orders for arms and petroleum and petroche-
if his camr- rn ’ ca ^ facilities running as high as $25 billion. ”
oh know, «|I W est will be spared the worst effects of the war by the decision
loraneousk r S au( h Arabia, and aooarently several other members of the Organi-
lon’ t knoui P tion °f Petroleum Exporting Countries, to offset enough lost
use fef I ran ' an "* ra qi P r °duction to stabilize the world oil market.
" (i ^udi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Sand al-Faisal said in an
interview with the Washington Post during the weekend that his
country will increase its oil production to counteract shortfalls result
ing from the gulf war. The size of the increase, he said, will depend on
! inarket conditions and the response of other oil producers,
i Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani visited
; Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates during the
* _ I I weekend in an effort to coordinate his country’s production boost with
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I The total loss to the world’s oil market from the war is roughly 3.5
las served# barrels per day of Iranian and Iraqi exports. Although Iran
insists that some of its oil is still flowing abroad, the amounts are
I, believed to be minimal.
Before the war there was a 2.5 million barrel per day surplus, most of
diich went into the West’s iOO-day stockpile. Now, the net market
ally demand exceeds the supply by about 1 million barrels.
The Saudis are expected to pump anywhere from 500,000 to 900,000
arrels above their current output of 9.5 million barrels per day.
cave I-"- ^' t ' ona l increments are expected from Kuwait, Qatar, the United
linted W Emirates and Indonesia. Together, these increases should cover
landle Ac 1 . ^ million barrel per day gap and carry the West through the
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Oct. 7, 8, 9
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Nurse will be there
Oct. 7 &8 to
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you have about
giving blood.
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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE STUDENTS
FOCUS IN ON A CAREER
JOIN US AT
PCPA DAY
PROFESSIONAL CAREER PLANNING IN AGRICULTURE
PRESENTED BY
• COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
• NATIONAL AGRICULTURE • CAREER PLANNING &
MARKETING ASSOCIATION PLACEMENT CENTER
OCTOBER 8, 1980
WEDNESDAY 9:00 A.M. — 5:00 P.M.
ROOM 201 MSC — 2ND FLOOR MSC
Each participating organization will have a booth on the second floor of the MSC. The morning hours (9:00 -
11:30) are reserved for seniors and graduate students and for those underclassmen with schedule conflicts. The
afternoon (1:30 - 5:00) is open to all students.
EMPLOYERS ATTENDING PCPA DAY:
Allied Mills-Wayne Feed
American Cyanamid
Brookhaven Country Club
KSA-Bud Adams Ranches
Cargill-Nutrena Feed
Castle & Cooke
Champion International-Timberlands
ChemLawn
Ciba-Geigy and Funk’s Seeds
Country Pride Foods
DEKALB AgResearch
Dow Chemical USA
Elanco Products
Farm Credit Banks of Texas-FLB’s, FICB, TBC
Ford Tractor
Granada
Halliburton Service
International Harvester-Ag Equipment
Iowa Beef Processors
MBPXL (Beef Packers)
McDonald’s
Merck & Company
Mobay Chemical-Agricultural Division
Monsanto Ag Products
Moorman Manufacturing
Northrup King
Producers Grain Corporation (PGC)
Ralston Purina
Servi-Tech
Seventy-Four Ranch Beef
Texas Ag Extension Service
Texas Electric Cooperatives
Texas Parks and Recreation Society
Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept.
US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth
Valmac Industries
The purpose of our PCPA Day is to acquaint students with their career opportunities as well as enable
industry, state and local representatives to meet the students and faculty of Texas A&M University. The event is
open, but not limited to, all classifications of majors in the College of Agriculture.