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Colonel Steve Austin, an ex-astronaut and test pilot with
bionic limbs in the telemovie, The Six Million Dollar
Man |
After winning Miss San Francisco, she won Miss California,
then Miss America with her recital of a John Millington Synge
monologue |
As a decorated combat veteran, he was a natural in war dramas,
where he frequently assisted the director and other actors in
realistically portraying infantry movement, arranging costumes, and
even adjusting war surplus military prop firearms |
After winning the 1974 PGA Championship, he was struck by
lightning at the 1975 Western Open, and suffered injuries to his
spine and back. |
At 11:21 am CST Sunday, November 24, while he was handcuffed
to Detective Leavelle and as he was about to be taken to the Dallas
County Jail, he was shot and fatally wounded before live television
cameras in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters by Jack
Ruby |
After being fired at Ford, he was aggressively courted by the
Chrysler Corporation, which was on
the verge of going out of business. He joined Chrysler and began
rebuilding the entire company from the ground up, laying off many
workers, selling Chrysler's loss-making European division to
Peugeot, and bringing in many former associates from his former
company. |
He was named among TIME
Magazine's 100 Most Important People of the Century as
one of the greatest heroes & icons, as an example of
personal improvement through, in part, physical fitness, and among
the most influential martial
artists of the twentieth century |
The first superhero group he and artist Jack Kirby created was
the family of the Fantastic Four. Its immediate popularity led him
and Marvel's illustrators to produce a cavalcade of new
titles. |
He entered the United States Military Academy in 1825 and
became the first cadet to achieve the rank of sergeant at the end
of his first year. When he graduated in 1829 he was at the head of
his class in artillery and tactics, and shared the distinction with
five other cadets of having received no demerits during the
four-year course of instruction |
An award-winning musician, his style, technique, and skill on
the bass guitar have proven very influential in the rock and heavy
metal genres, inspiring such players as Steve Harris of Iron
Maiden, John Myung of Dream Theater, Les Claypool of Primus, and
Cliff Burton of Metallica |