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Guerrilla Warfare. Most of the losses and breakdowns are caused by professional thieves. They pick the lock of the coin box or stuff the coin chute with thin pieces of paper and after several would-be callers have dropped in their coins, retrieve the money. Last year one thief admitted that he habitually got into 20 to 30 pay phones a day and earned $20,000 annually. Less sophisticated professionals often smash the telephones or rip them out and carry them away. Plain spiteful vandalism also accounts for an increasing number of broken phones. Teen-agers rip out wires...
...best-remembered bit of do-it-yourself leadership came after two air force recruits fell to their deaths because their parachutes failed to open; newspapers and congressmen howled that military parachutes were faulty. Barrientos summoned newsmen to El Alto Airport at La Paz, ordered them to pick any chute in the military supply room. When they did, he strapped it on, went up and jumped himself. The criticism stopped...
...think about the muscles in your body, the tension of the pull of your back parachute opening, the positions of your legs used to manipulate your orientation in the air. You are to count, shout, "one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand, five thousand, six thousand" until your chute opens...
...little different for different malfunctions). It takes from a second to a second and a half to reach down against a 125 mile an hour wind to find the ripcord on your stomach and pull it and then punch the bag to make sure the chute is knocked out. It then takes two seconds for the emergency chute to become fully open. At this point you are travelling at the terminal velocity for a falling human, 125 miles an hour; you started with less than half a mile to fall...
...haired bride Rickie, 22, to share it with him. Her first jump was perfect, though she laughed about landing in a mud puddle. The second time up, last August, she left the plane in a bad body position-back arched toward the ground. Rickie became entangled in her main chute lines, her reserve chute snarled and, as John Wasik watched from the ground, she fell to her death...