Word: niagara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among those who take dares, some men ride sharks; others guzzle a fifth of gin at one sitting. And some take the 162-ft. ride over Niagara Falls. So far as the records show, six men have gone over-in oak casks, steel barrels, truck inner tubes, bathing trunks-and only three survived. Last week, daredevil No. 7 shot the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a rubber ball and bobbed to the surface grinning broadly, with a few abrasions. Said Nathan Boya, 30, a Negro from The Bronx, N.Y.: "I've always wanted to make this trip...
...with 13 canisters of oxygen in case he was trapped behind the falls' water curtain-a precaution dictated by another fallsman who went over in a steel barrel in 1930, spent 22 hours behind the curtain, suffocated when his air supply ran out. Trucking his sphere to the Niagara River, Boya launched it into the current, climbed aboard and floated off. Niagara Parks Commission Chief Edward Rehfeld, who takes a dim view of such adventures, spotted the contraption two miles above the falls, put in a frantic call for a U.S. Army helicopter (no pilot available), then chased after...
...West Coast foreigners prefer Disneyland to Hollywood. "You really should have let Khrushchev go to Disneyland," said one Scot. "He probably would still be there if you had." Another great Russian favorite is the tomb of Rudolph Valentino. Still high on every foreigner's list: the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and the elaborate curlicue highway system. For the sociologically minded, Negro districts are a must. One tourist guide in San Francisco now makes a point of stopping poorly dressed Negroes in the street to ask directions. "I always get a polite reply," she says. "I think that this does...
Fallen Women. Though he drew as a child, it never occurred to Balcomb Greene, who is now 57, that art could be a man's life work. His father, a Methodist minister, was forever being moved about-from Niagara Falls, where Greene was born, to an assortment of towns in Iowa, Colorado and South Dakota, and finally back to New York. Greene majored in philosophy at Syracuse University, studied psychology in Vienna. When he bucked for an M.A. in English literature at Columbia University he might have been doomed to an academic career had not a fusty professor refused...
...politics, he was elected to Congress in 1950. Torn between politics and his Lockport, N.Y. law practice, he nearly quit Congress in 1953. Instead, he took down his shingle and plunged full-time into his duties in the House, where he waged a dogged fight against public power projects (Niagara Falls and power-rich Niagara County are both in his home district...