Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since he is both a Negro and blind, Kirk is conditioned to frustration, but he resents any suggestion that he is a musical freak. And his tautly phrased solos on individual instruments at Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate last week refuted any illusion that he is a gimmicky stunt man. A pair of Down Beat awards by inter national jazz critics in the past two years attest his achievement...
Photo Finish stages a lively dead heat between an old party of 80 and his 60-, 40-, and 20-year-old selves. Author-Director-Star Peter Ustinov has con cocted this stunt play, and with the help of an elegant and able cast, he pulls it off wittily...
...school senior and very likely the world's fastest teenager, held a pace of 1,325-1,350 m.p.h., with Dad as her copilot-and Dad is Supersonic Flight Pioneer A. W. ("Tony") LeVier, 50, now Lockheed-California's director of flying operations. With another father-daughter stunt in the offing, a cross-country flight to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Toni nevertheless talks like a girl whose aims are thoroughly down-to-earth. "I want to get my private pilot's license," says she, "but I think I'd rather be a mother than...
...were amused, but not the NASA officials. Again, during Gus Grissom's suborbital flight. Cooper, who had been flying a chase jet, buzzed the Cape and momentarily disrupted communications. He was severely reprimanded, and it was that sort of stunt that a worried Mercury official had in mind when he said before last week's flight: "He's enough of a daredevil to pull some stunt up there we don't know about...
...stunt had been done before, in 1785, but getting there was half the fun for Donald Placard, 37, and Paul E. Yost, 39, both of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Engaged in ballyhoo for a French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed...