Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eastern Airlines' former Chief Pilot H. T. ("Dick") Merrill still feels at ease in the cockpit of a commercial airliner. So he was right at home riding a jump seat on an Eastern run from"Miami to New York City, where he was hailed by the National Aeronautic Association for "enhancing the prestige of the U.S. as the world's leader in aviation." Quite a leader himself, Merrill has an unmatched 40,000 hours at the controls of everything from early Fokkers to the latest DC-8 jets. Retired because of age in 1961, Merrill still flies "everything...
...Jack LaLanne, a 53-year-old, V-shaped (47-27-34) monument to muscularity. "Get those sweat glands working! Kick! Back! One-and-kick-and-two-and-kick-and-smile-and-kick! Don't stop! Smile and kick!" He wears ballet slippers and a body-hugging, low-cut jump suit, and bounds around like the original jumping Jack. Backed by bubbly organ music, he gives lectures on the beauties of sweating ("It's Mother Nature's air conditioner"), sings, tells jokes, blows kisses and delivers sermonettes. No one, he says, can hope for a sound body without...
...Creswell, Ore. It is still not known with certainty how the casualties were suffered, but it has been established that Communist gunboats fired repeatedly across Pueblo's bow as she took evasive action, while eight MIGs buzzed the vessel and 75 more lay in wait at Wonsan to jump any rescuers. During this time, the crew attempted to destroy equipment and papers that might be valuable to the enemy...
Harvard's sophomore broad jump trio of Bob Galliers, Skip Hare, and John Avault will have their hands full with the Eli jumpers. Led by talented Calvin Hill, who has soared 25', Yale has four men who have done better than...
Harvard may pick up its lone sweep in the shot, with mountainous Dick Benka. Ajootian, and Hedendal, but the paucity of Crimson high jumpers spells defeat in the event. Harvard has only Jim Coleman, whose best jump of the year is around 6'3". Yale has three 6'6" jumpers. Princeton's Richard Weisiger has gone...