European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine Karl rat patriarch of 600 feat Over Atlanta stadium Kar the aerialist who wont quit by Boris we1nthaub Washington Star his weathered face looks like the that of a Crafty fight or of some retired businessman who has pulled off Many a shrewd Deal in his but this Man in the brawn three piece Busi Ness suit defies and has been defying death for 57 and he has although seven of his including several members of his have taken the same Gamble and have he is Karl 73 years and he is absolutely have you never been afraid of anything he is he believe he has the credentials to prove Abc telecast a two hour movie matted tie great Wai based on the history of the famous circus family of High wire it focuses on the Accident in de troit m 1962 when the Pyramid formed of seven members of the troupe killing two Wallenda family members and paralysing for the Karl Wallenda for the first time in 14 the seven person in a live performance before a circus audience in but the movie also recreates the Detroit with the producer using stunt special effects people and one wonders How Karl Wallenda watch ing this but then one remembers that he went up on the nigh wire himself us Day after the i have be Sayi in the German accent which although be left us Homeland in it is the Only Way to my we to the euro Busi if 1 dont go Back m in All washed if Karl Wallenda were merely a circus it would be difficult enough to comprehend at his still walks the High As he has for almost of his without a but his walks outside circus a Renas Are even More Hying Walland family my twi injured Karl in Pyramid act in in has walked across wires Strung from one Corner of a major league baseball stadium to another across the lop of the capital Center in Washington before the Arena had a roof Between two Miami Beach hotels 18 stories in perhaps the most spectacular feat of across the Tallulah Gorge in Georgia on a win tossed wire 730 feet above the when we worked in we used a he re except sometimes on the last we would go without when i came to this country John ring Ling North spotted i m Ami his troupe performing in Cuba and immediately signed him for ringing Baum pc Bailey and i saw All the great acts in Madison Square 1 thought wed better work without a net or nobody will notice and Ive never used one if we have a net when the seven people Pyramid it still would have killed because there Are the steel balancing poles weighing 35 or 40 and they would have hit in our when there is a they get my youngest in the i gave him my but i you must use a sure a few Days later 1 hear that Wulick Wallenda fell into the net and bounced out and was so 1 what Good is net that Liall said la the same Lone most people would us a the strategy of a sunday football and thai my sister inlaw worked on the High and one Day she and nobody knew my brother inlaw want even on the High he was taking the rigging Down and he rushed against a live wire and was killed i watched and there was nothing i could and another he was on his Way to and he slopped to change a Flat and a Drunken Driver came by and hit him and he was lulled each my destiny is to keep on walk ing the wire until the Good lord wants life goes air planes fall and 200 people Are and the Neill people Fly in air planes As though nothing it is this this unshakable belief in destiny february and in himself that in so disconcerting to listeners who trip stepping off a tie talks about his own near Acci dents and potentially fatal and he tells of having retired several years but feeling lonely not being up on that wire whose thickness is a Mere five eights of an Inch of flexible he tells of the time during his during a performance in Mexico his daughter passed out on the platform As she was about to step onto the and he went up in his Street clothes to do the Wall a a Liu incr Why did she Pau ool Wallenda As 1c 11 Wen at most oils thing in the world she wits you pregnant she was and she was about to go out on the High wire the same patient my she went on the wire when she was seven months in the to Loyd Bridges plays the role of Karl but the Aerial acts Are performed by a genuine Wallenda troupe assembled by including several family the patriarch wanted to be in it him two Days before filming began last he was showing off that 1 could still do got uncharacteristically careless and fell 25 fracturing the first Verte Bra in his although in considerable he was out o the Hospital in a Lew Days to help coordinate the Aerial acts for the the family tradition get despite the inked pm Hal have axles us Karl family owned Clr Cucui in Fol no Back at taut Tuor generation before now be of crawl cell Dettt walk the we be Katowi the my Tina he is of or and a few weeks he walked Over a right Over a Cage with two wild Lions and two wild Karl Wakenda no and he skipped rope and in proud of t want i was t saw that that was me 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