Word: rehfeld
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...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 the ball along the river bank. He could follow only as far as Niagara Control Dam, where...
Over it went. When Chief Rehfeld arrived at the Maid of the Mist landing, Boya said airily: "Talk to my attorney -I've just integrated the falls." As a matter of fact, there wasn't much anyone could do about it, though Canada may have a case if Boya crossed the international border illegally...