Word: cartwheels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast includes such acceptable Latin types as Anthony Quinn and Margo, and such less acceptable Latin types as Jean Peters. In the title role, Marlon Brando, wearing a spitcurl hairdo, drooping mustachios and cartwheel sombrero, slouches and mumbles his way through the excitement in a deadpan Brando voice...
...probables to his credit. One day about a year ago, at a test-pilot school bull session, the discussion got around to the maneuverability of the Gloster Meteor. "Zura," a test pilot for the Gloster Aircraft Co., said the plane was good enough to do a "Fin Sling," a cartwheel-like stunt he had been thinking about for a long time...
Last week Zurakowski was doing slings for fun as part of routine test nights. None of his fellow pilots have yet managed Zura's trick, but they know it requires a plane with the proper wings to prevent it from rolling out of the skidding, cartwheel turn. It also needs the powerful thrust of the Meteor's two jets, set just the right distance apart. And it needs Zura's confident touch on the controls...