Word: daredeviling
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...suffers from such an advanced case of post-coitum triste that he urinates on a woman. Then there is the fellow whose sleep is troubled by a nocturnal emission, and next morning he frantically hides his shorts from the prying eyes of an older woman. Not to mention the daredevil who copulates with a nimble Philippine girl on a wooden bench while she chats nonchalantly with a waitress passing...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was a daredevil racing driver and America's World War I ace of aces, later applied his bravura to business when he took over Eastern Air Lines. He survived a dizzying number of auto and plane crashes, one of which led to his spectacular 24-day nightmare in a rubber raft in the Pacific in 1942. Unfortunately, Pilot Rickenbacker's prose does not fly; it won't even roll. The irascible old individualist makes his life sound dully plausible...
...Suede. Shob Carter's murder was apparently solved when a police officer spotted the victim's battered black Volkswagen, bearing stolen license plates, 35 miles north of San Francisco. In the car were $2,657 in cash evidently stolen from the prosperous peddler, and the driver, a daredevil motorcycle racer named Eric Dahlstrom, 23. Beside him on the seat was a grisly piece of evidence: Carter's right forearm, neatly sutured at the severed end and wrapped in a blue suede...
COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Dinah Shore taped two shows on her recent trip to Russia. The first one features the Moscow State Circus, with Popov the clown, the Bubnov aerialists and the Kantemirov daredevil horseback riders...
Considering the daredevil way she operated, it came as no surprise. She once drove a Renault all the way from Argentina to Alaska, and the same idea occurred to her while covering the war as a freelancer in Viet Nam. Why not drive from Ca Mau, at the nation's southern tip, to the Demilitarized Zone in the north along 600 miles of ragged road and Viet Cong? In December she started out, her car sandbagged as a defense against land mines...