Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...award from the Friars Club as Entertainer of the Year. Weren't her naughty-lady movie takeoffs risqué? "Not compared with those dirty soap operas. We're G-rated compared to daytime TV." Does she have a second career in mind? "I should say a stunt woman in stag movies. But I'd really like to be a schoolteacher for kids, six to eight. They haven't heard all my jokes...
...other key-command posts will also be held by women; all of the secondary positions will be filled by men. This strange odyssey, scheduled to begin in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and wind up in Yucatan, Mexico, has all of the earmarks of a frivolous publicity stunt. In fact, it is a serious experiment in role reversal and cultural conflict conceived by Santiago Genoves, a Mexican anthropologist who went along on Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra expeditions...
...contest has attracted both praise and criticism. Elliott said yesterday she liked the "wide-open approach" while Perla Hewes, Radcliffe tennis and squash instructor and a semi-finalist, said she believed "The Miss America Pageant" would be a more appropriate title. Hewes described the contest as a publicity stunt...
...Hasty Pudding Club advertised yesterday's events, which included a parade from the Business school, in a fake Crimson extra distributed Monday night and Tuesday morning. The annual award, begun 23 years ago, is a publicity stunt for the theatrical club's annual musical production...