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...about Cuba's horn-spectacled President General Gerardo Machado y Morales, El Gallo (The Rooster): that he is completely subservient to U. S. big business interests, that all serious political opponents are exiled from Cuba, that political prisoners are thrown to the sharks of Havana harbor from a chute in the Cabana fortress (next to Morro Castle), that though private crime has been spectacularly reduced, political assassination is common; etc., etc. (TIME, March 11, et seq.). One night last week Editor Pacheco found himself in a position to write no more. A curtained automobile stopped in front...
...Santa Barbara (Calif.) hotel a maid threw a bundle of Mrs. John McGill's dirty linen down a laundry chute to the basement four stories below. The bundle contained Mrs. McGill's infant, eight months old, who was unharmed...
...Commerce last week announced that, beginning July 1, it would test and certificate parachutes as well as planes. With new types of parachutes coming on the market in rapid succession, parachute accidents have been increasing. To obtain certificates of approval, manufacturers will not have to submit each & every 'chute to inspection, but one of each type offered for sale. Minimum test requirements...
...Chester Pickup. At 10,000 ft. Pilot Pickup put his plane into a power dive. At 7,000 ft. the terrific pressure shattered the windshield, the glass cutting Pickup's face, momentarily stunning him. Unable to regain control, Pickup motioned Dittman to jump with him. Dittman, whose 'chute failed to open until he had dropped to 1,000 ft., landed on the roof of an open hearth furnace of Carnegie Steel Co., directly alongside the wreckage of the plane. Questioned by mill police, Dittman heard...
...disabled airplane, from deep in his consciousness comes the reflex which makes him pull the rip cord, located over his heart, and open up his life saver. Psychologically it is almost impossible to forget to pull. Three hundred feet of altitude is the safe minimum in which the chute can be used, although jumps of less height are on record. The highest jump on record is one of better than 24,000 ft. At that height, the jumper had to have oxygen for breathing. The longest delayed jump was from a height of 11,000 ft. The experimenter pulled...