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...airplane was an effusive matron wearing an oversize Nixon button; she flung her arms around him and commiserated: "Don't worry, son. Kennedy won last night but you'll do better next time." Nixon visibly paled, while sandwiched among the press corps, Tuck was laughing at the stunt he had improvised. One day Nixon was in the middle of a whistle-stop speech on his campaign train when it suddenly pulled out of the station. Tuck, donning a railman's cap, had signaled the engineer to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Man Who Bugged Nixon | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...horn right away to Norm (Jewison) to tell him what a solid job he did, giving the picture life and relevance. You've probably heard he kind of copped from Henry V, using that stunt of an acting company performing the show we're all watching, making it kind of a show inside of a show, if you can dig it. It gave everything an extra dimension. But what really got to me was the way Norm brought all that contemporary political stuff in. I mean, we all know the story's happening in Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Epistle from The Philistines | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...bets on most professional and collegiate sports and horse races. Last year he bet $30,000 that he could run the rapids of Idaho's treacherous Salmon River, a hazardous but successful publicity stunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Slim's Good Life | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

Then pick the cat up by the tail, the bottle still clasped in its claws, and put it on the counter. Locals claim that the stunt works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Slim's Good Life | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...football team, read that a professional player was "so mean that he ate glass." After a few drinks at a party, Bennett set out to prove that eating glass had nothing to do with meanness. He unscrewed the bulb from a nearby lamp and ate it. The kooky stunt so pleased him and his audience that Bennett, 21, has since consumed a dozen bulbs. He has also set off-the campus' most bizarre craze since Lothrop Withington Jr. swallowed a live goldfish at the Freshman Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Glass Eaters | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

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