Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Edmund Richard "Hoot" Gibson, 70, six-gun king of the celluloid range, a homely Nebraska cowboy who thrilled three decades of moviegoers, starting out in 1910 as a $20-a-week stunt man and going on to become one of horse opera's Big Five (the others: Torn Mix, William S. Hart, Harry Carey, Buck Jones) in the 1920s and '30s, earning $14,500 a week at the peak of his career, and letting it slip through his fingers like quicksilver until in his last years he was almost broke; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...reaction to the Soviet spectacular ranged from grudging admiration to scoffing irrelevance. President Kennedy congratulated the Russians for their fine "technical feat. " NASA Director James Webb insisted that Americans would still be the first men on the moon. Dwight Eisenhower, who recently deplored "the mad effort to win a stunt race " to the moon, seemed removed from the troubling reality: "I don't admit there is a[space] gap. I'm a little tired of that word. I've heard enough of it. " A Different Feeling. But much more will be heard. The official U.S. position...
...school in the Urals by designing the reconstruction of the dormitory in which he lived. He entered the air force in 1951, became a Communist Party member in 1957. While on duty in Siberia, he met his future wife, Maria, a woodcutter's daughter and an accomplished amateur stunt pilot, at a flying club near his station. Married in 1955, they have a six-year-old daughter, Natasha...
Sopwith, famed stunt flyer, hydroplane racer and aircraft builder (his World War II Hurricanes held off the German Luftwaffe), whose Endeavors twice challenged for the cup, lost in 1934 only by the narrowest of margins-four races to two-to Harold S. Vanderbilt's Rainbow...
...safe or easy. All sorts of unexpected obstacles may force changes of plan. No one knows, for instance, whether human bodies can stand a full week exposed to zero gravity. If they cannot, some sort of substitute gravity will have to be supplied by spinning the spacecraft−a stunt that will call for radically new apparatus. Another unknown is the lunar surface; no one is sure at present just how hostile it is. Astronomers point out that it is inconceivably old, that it has stewed in a vacuum and been exposed to fierce radiation for billions of years...