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NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario - For more than 40 years, visitors to this tourist town have gazed upward to a fiberglass likeness of 19th- century tightrope walker Charles Blondin occupying not only his fabled wire, but his place as Niagara Falls' most famous funambulist.
This summer, tourists also have been bending their necks for a flesh-and-blood contemporary. Twice each day, Jay Cochrane has traversed a wire between two 20-story towers set 1,000 feet apart, addressing onlookers with a showman's skills honed over a 50-year career.See the full content of this document
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Niagara Falls Is Tightrope Walker's Dream
"Welcome to Canada!" he announces from above as his electric blue costume's sequins spark like flashbulbs in the sun.
By summer's end, Cochrane will have performed 300 "skywalks," as he calls them, a block or so from the water's edge.But he will hardly be done with Niagara Falls.Next year, the 63-year-old...See the full content of this document
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