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...simply maneuvered the X-15 back on course, and made a perfect touchdown practically atop the magenta-smoke landing marker on California's Rogers Dry Lake. He emerged from the plane to greet his seven-year-old son trailing his air-conditioning tube behind him like an umbilical cord...
...chickens hard enough he may get a goose. In the homosexual, Actor Melvin finds valor, humor, ethos, pathos, and a touching reminder that men who become women sometimes become good women. With the mother, Actress Bryan accomplishes a masterpiece of caricature. Voice like a firebell, hair like fried sash-cord, face notched with conquests like a sheriff's six gun, she is the wiggling, giggling, jiggling image of the beery...
...fashions, and (with only one exception) to stick with the somewhat less elegant, out-moded, and wearable clothes still offered. A basic warm-weather ward-robe should include probably one good dark two-piece suit (worsted or Dacron is your best bet); a seersucker or, if you will, cord suit, a pair of dark slacks, possibly a pair of white ducks, a couple of odd jackets, and plenty of lightweight sports shirts. (A cost run down on the above: dark suit, $60-$70; seersucker suit, $40-$50; slacks, $20-$25; jackets, about $30; sports shirts no more than $3 apiece...
...Soutter pointed out to me: You jump with an emergency parachute on your chest which you deploy in case of a malfunction in the main canopy. On your first five jumps, in accordance with Parachute Club of America regulations, you use a static line, which means that your rip cord is pulled for you as soon as you leave the plane...
...England safety officer licensed by the P.C.A., told me that he has taken 489 students through static-line jumps--in none of which did the main canopy fail. And he showed me how a parachute works, how the several tough, elastic bands throw the pack open when the rip cord is pulled, and how, at the same instant, the pilot chute (a miniature parachute that pulls the main canopy out) hurtles almost 20 feet into the air by the force of its own compressed spring system...