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When she finds herself in the hospital, she cannot understand what happened; and, though she tells her thoughts to the audience, the doctors cannot understand her. At first she thinks they are deliberately refusing to listen. Then Mrs. Stilson, who was once a stunt pilot, realizes the truth: her wings have failed her. "As near as I can figure," she says, "I was in my brain and crashed." Slowly, like a child, she learns the words for ev eryday things and slowly recovers until, at the end, she suffers another stroke and escapes for good...
DIED. Frank Tallman, 59, Hollywood's top stunt pilot, who crashed countless old "Jennys" into barns and mountains without mishap; in a private-plane accident while trying to land in a violent rainstorm; in Santa Ana, Calif. A naval aviator during World War II, Tallman barnstormed throughout the next two decades in a legendary partnership, called Tallmantz, with Pilot Paul Mantz, who also died in a crash. The proceeds of Tallman's daredevil work in movies (Catch-22, The Carpetbaggers) helped him build a personal collection of classic planes...
...which sentiment is in short supply, the number "Recollections of an Old Dancer" is a finely wrought exception. Done to the song Mr. Bojangles, it captures the wrenching effect of advanced age for a dancer, together with the agelessness of the spirit of dance. Another standout is an amusing stunt number called "Fourteen Feet," which might have been titled "Look Ma, No Feet!" Seven dancers implant their feet in nailed-down clogs and proceed to sway, shake and swivel. At one point the lighting trans forms them into electric eels. Electric they...
...Karl Wallenda did a handstand on Weitzman's shoulders. So Karl Wallenda became a high-wire stunt man. Probably it was in his blood all along. His father was a catcher in a wandering troupe of aerialists; his mother performed with the troupe too. But when Wallenda first began performing his own high-wire act, he soon showed the daring that was to make him the greatest of his strange breed. He not only walked the wire but rode a bicycle on it- with his brother Herman on his shoulders. He invented an act that had never before been...
Carter is beginning to "pull together" his foreign policy, which until now has been unsuccessful, Neustadt said. Wilson, on the other hand, called Carter's foreign policy "confused." Wilson said Carter's recent foreign tour was a "publicity stunt...