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...were the Russian pilots so trigger-happy? Western experts speculate that the Soviets might have been more than normally jittery about security in the Kola Peninsula area because of an embarrassing incident that occurred a few weeks earlier: a light plane flown by a daredevil Swedish pilot landed on a lake near Leningrad to pick up three would-be Soviet defectors; although the rendezvous failed, the pilot managed to fly away scot-free...
...accident while trying to land in a violent rainstorm; in Santa Ana, Calif. A naval aviator during World War II, Tallman barnstormed throughout the next two decades in a legendary partnership, called Tallmantz, with Pilot Paul Mantz, who also died in a crash. The proceeds of Tallman's daredevil work in movies (Catch-22, The Carpetbaggers) helped him build a personal collection of classic planes...
...something of a daredevil. During the junior patrol trip to Aspen in 1974, he was standing with friends on the last slope at the Snowmass-at-Aspen area, which runs between two lodges. He turned to Jim and handed him his parka. "Watch this," he said, and took off down the slope. He made a few quick turns, then headed for a bump, took a huge jump, and landed in the middle of a lodge swimming pool, which was unoccupied. He swam around the pool collecting his equipment, which came off when he hit the water, climbed...
...Jean-Paul Belmondo swings from a chandelier, escapes from menacing samurai and dresses up as a gorilla-all in the line of duty. He plays a professional stunt man in the French film L 'Animal and performs all his feats himself. Co-Star Raquel Welch, 36, portrays his daredevil partner, but relied on a stand-in stunt woman. Awed by Belmondo, Welch says: "He's the embodiment of all the best qualities of the French male...
Died. Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen, 67, swashbuckling, humanitarian Swedish aristocrat; of gunshot wounds suffered during a surprise guerrilla attack; in Gode, Ethiopia. Von Rosen's daredevil "mercy" missions, which eventually spanned four decades and four wars, first brought him hero status during the 1936 Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The count once declared: "I was born in a castle, the son of a millionaire, and they tried to bring me up as a noble gentleman. But I was always naughty, always in trouble...