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A graduate of Ohio State, Smith belonged to the group of OSU divers which dominated national swimming in the late 1950's. He placed fifth in the NCAA Championship in 1953 and ranked high in the 1956 Olympic trials.
Invisible Stunts. Points are awarded in sport parachuting both for accuracy (trying to hit the exact center of the 328-ft. target area from as high as 1,500 meters) and style, in which sky divers somersault and turn by waggling their outstretched arms. The classic form for a sustained...
Angry Jumpers. For the contestants, there were frustrations as well as rewards. After living on soup and sandwiches and sleeping on army cots for three weeks, the sky divers were in no mood for philosophic acceptance of Operation Sky Shield, which grounded all civilian aircraft for five hours on the...
First problem was to find a compression chamber (usually used for slow decompression of divers and tunnel workers to guard against "the bends"). A construction company in McCook, 30 miles away, agreed to send in one of the 6-ft. by 16-ft., four-ton monsters by trailer truck. It...
Man in Space. In Divers, Léger wanted to show the human body "revolving in space without any point of contact with the ground.'' After innumerable studies of figures, single or in pairs, and a few studies of abstract shapes, entwined like dancers, he produced a climactic...