Word: daredeviling
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...write, Sheila could possibly have skied on, but her taste for it was gone. "Mom's dis appointed that I'm not enthusiastic about racing any more," Sheila said a few years later. "She doesn't quite understand." A half brother, Steve, 30, turned to daredevil speed skiing (he once held the world's record of 124 m.p.h.) after an advertising transaction disqualified him from amateur competition. All family dreams were eventually handed down to Tamara. "I am out there trying to win, but I'm mostly trying to stay happy," she says, seeming even...
...M.I.T., he got his start working for William Shockley, the Nobel-prizewinning co-developer of transistors. Noyce is married to Ann Bowers, a vice president of Apple Computer. He enjoys piloting a twin-engine Cessna Citation jet and is an avid downhill skier. Friends consider Noyce something of a daredevil, both in the way he lives and in the way he invests...
...Daredevil Spree...
What seems clear is that no adventurer, in his own mind, is a daredevil. Even the most extreme risk taker talks like an astronaut of safety gear, of weather carefully calculated, of redundant strengths to cushion failure. What really protects them, however, seems to be their abnormal awareness of how very much alive they are. "You know about accidents," says a rock-climber. "But it's always the guy next to you, never you." How could it be you? But this inspired state does not often last a lifetime...
DIED. Maxie Leroy Anderson, 48, daredevil, eye-patched balloonist who captured the world's delighted attention in 1978 when he and two fellow aeronauts made the first transatlantic crossing in the silvery Double Eagle II; in a balloon crash; in Brückenau, West Germany. After amassing a mining fortune, Anderson took up ballooning as "a way of entering history." In his final flight, Anderson and frequent Co-Pilot Don Ida, 49, were desperately trying to land before drifting into East Germany when their gondola became detached and the two adventurers plunged 2,000 ft. to their deaths...