7 of 10: Karl Wallenda, 77, patriarch of the famous Wallenda Family of aerial artists, walks the high wire, 65 feet above the floor of a suburban Chicago shopping center in Bolingbrook, Illinois on Feb. 18, 1978. Wallenda, who broke his neck in a fall in November 1977, walked the 400-foot distance without difficulty. (AP Photo/GR)

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