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...Ballini, splashed into the rapids and the headlines from a tightrope 160 ft. above the water. And there were barrels. Though countless daredevils pitted their fate against rapids and whirlpool, it was only in 1901 that anyone dared barrel over the waterfall itself. Anna Edson Taylor, a middle-aged widow from Michigan, survived the venture, but three of six others who later tried the stunt died in the attempt...
...where they were married by a justice of the peace. Only because the groom is an expert drag racer was the couple, zooming over back roads at speeds up to 75 m.p.h., able to stay ahead of pursuing newsmen. At last, back home in suburban Dallas, Marina Oswald, 23, widow of John Kennedy's assassin, posed briefly with her new husband, Electronics Technician Kenneth Jess Porter, 27, a twice-divorced father of two who met her two months ago. Marina said only that she felt "wonderful" and that "I just want to be alone with my husband." The groom...
Clobbered Widow. Nor is Connery backward about claiming that he has helped the James Bond image along no end. "You must realize," he says, "that Ian Fleming's books began coming out after the war and rationing and all that, and they had all this selectivity of detail of eating and drinking. It was marvelous journalism. But Ian told me it was nothing but padding. You know, vodka must be shaken and not stirred, that kind of razzmatazz. But he did write with a bit of size." The only thing the Fleming books lacked, in Connery's view...
Director Terence Young agrees, "In a Bond film you aren't involved in cinema verite or avantgarde. One is involved in colossal fun." Just what turn the fun can take is indicated by Thunderball's top-secret opening sequence. There, in rapid order, Bond clobbers a widow ("she" turns out to be a man), strangles him (her) with a fireplace poker, then escapes from the balcony with the aid of a jet-powered backpack, and finally drives off in his Aston-Martin with a blonde...
...York, a Supreme Court jury decided that the death of Hotel and Real Estate Magnate Arnold S. Kirkeby, 60, in an American Airlines jetliner crash had deprived his widow and daughter of $1,172,000 in anticipated earnings. Largest in New York negligence history, the Kirkeby award follows an Appellate Division decision that American was solely responsible for the disaster. Still to be heard: claims for as much as $10 million by relatives of at least nine other victims of the same March 1, 1962, crash...