Word: daredeviling
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...dispute his figure, and there were no skid marks to indicate that Kennedy had braked the car or had even been aware that he was in danger. It is known, however, that some members of Kennedy's entourage refuse to ride with him because he is such a daredevil driver, and Kennedy incurred four traffic convictions in the '50s, two for speeding and two for reckless driving...
...strikes that swept France last month. Caught up in the heady drive to democratize all institutions, the prestigious Paris-Match staff announced its intention of forming an association to participate in the running of the magazine. The journalists were concerned that Paris-Match might slacken its harddriving, even daredevil news coverage. But their ambition collided head-on with the more traditional views of Publisher Jean Prouvost, who has very firm ideas about who ought to be running a publication. At 83, Prouvost pleaded with his staff not to form the union, but they voted overwhelmingly to go ahead. The publisher...
Died. Captain W. E. Johns, 75, the portly English author who created Biggies, a World War I flying ace whose daredevil exploits and incorruptible character thrilled a worldwide audience of 20 million readers; of pulmonary thrombosis; in Hampton Court, England. Writing of swirling aerial duels between Biggies' Sopwith Camel and les boches was second nature to Johns, since he had tangled with them himself during the war, was shot down, captured and twice escaped. That stiff-upper-lip quality endured-as one government official learned during a recent inquiry of the captain. Could Biggies be given a few socialist...
...course seems very likely at the moment. He probably believes that time is his best ally. He wants to change his image, move away from the Americans, and mold a thoroughly nationalist look designed to appeal to the masses and the younger generation; in short, to transform the flashy, daredevil flyboy into a sort of Uncle Nguyen-an antiCommunist, anti-Western and South Vietnamese patriot...
...wing, were the great ones of World War I: the DeHavilland D.H.4 Eberhardt S.E. 5a, Nieuport 28, Pfalz D-XII and Fokker D-VII. And right near by sat a green and cream Sopwith Camel-the type that downed the Red Baron-with a cutout figure of that daredevil, Snoopy, as the Baron's fearless foe, everyone surely knows. The occasion: an auction of 29 veteran and vintage planes, from a tricycle-wheeled 1910 Parker Curtiss Pusher to such recent classics as World War II fighters...