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...four generations Germany's acrobatic Flying Wallendas have been performing their spine-tingling act on the high wire, always without a net. Since the Wallenda family settled in the U.S. in the 1920s, four members have toppled to death, and a fifth was permanently paralyzed in a fall. Now Steve Wallenda, 17, the youngest male of the proud family, who could have revitalized the troupe, has called it quits -for a high flying career with the U.S. paratroops. "I just like heights-on our first jump we will be jumping from 1,200 ft.," said Steve. "The highest...
...Division. The second scheme, announced by Mayor John Lindsay last week, is really a doubleheader: it starts with 5½ miles of existing Long Island Rail Road tracks in Brooklyn, calls for covering them over first with the proposed Cross Brooklyn Expressway, then placing on top of that a "spine city" of schools and colleges, housing, parks and community facilities. The planners envision shuttle trains and moving sidewalks to carry people to and from the length of the spine, see the linear plan as capable of indefinite extension...
...offices in a private jetliner. "Your cigar, sir," murmurs Irma (Elke Sommer), as she extracts a plump Corona from her ruffled cigarter. The boss lights up, draws deep, looks faintly startled as the cigar explodes a .38 slug that rips through the back of his throat and severs his spine...
...should be noted that Forman is not yet (in this, his second film) entirely adequate technically. He did not graduate from any of those incetuous Middle European national film academies, so unlike every other Slav we know he has neither a spine-warping bag of tricks nor an official certificate of artistry. He got into cinema as a writer, and the continuities he establishes are clearly more dramatic than graphic-which should make his art more accessible than most to the casual moviegoer...
...critic wrote that watching her was as fascinating as watching a wild animal in a cage. She herself apparently felt like a great tigress stalking among fluttering doves; she always claimed that she once tried to persuade a famous surgeon to graft a tiger's tail to her spine so that she could lash it about when she got angry. To her fans, she was known as "Sarah the Divine," or sometimes "The Magnificent Lunatic...