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...industry watchers expect Christmas sales this year to set any growth records. Said Joseph Ellis, a merchandising watcher for Goldman, Sachs & Co.: "By the time the smoke clears in January, I don't think it will have turned out to be a strong Christmas season." Added Robert Ortner, chief economist at the Commerce Department: "Christmas sales will be mediocre at best...
...jumpers who took off last week from Ortner Field in north-central Ohio had each taken the plunge more than 100 times, and they were awaiting yet another rhapsodic game with gravity. By a concatenation of unbelievable stupidities, their "fun jump" became a tragically bad trip...
...winds aloft ranged up to 60 m.p.h., the air craft was a World War II B-25 bomber with rudimentary navigation equipment, and the pilot was Robert Karns, 29, who had never bothered to get a "type rating" for the plane. The jumpers' tar get: Ortner Field itself, only ten miles from Lake Erie...
...through the clouds and circling north over the lake before heading back toward the field. When Pilot Karns thought he was in approximate position, he radioed the Federal Aviation Administration radar station at Oberlin, Ohio, for a radar vector. The Oberlin operator announced: "You are three miles west of Ortner." "Fine," radioed Karns. "I'm releasing my jumpers." Looking down, all anyone on the plane could see was clouds, broken here and there by patches of brownish green. Both the U.S. Parachute Association and the FAA have regulations forbidding a jump through clouds toward a target that cannot...