Word: parachutist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles. Tough jobs came his way even after the war. He helped draft the NATO treaty, helped parcel out arms to U.S. allies as first director of the Office of Military Assistance (1949). As commander of the 11th Airborne Division (1950), he qualified after a week as a rated parachutist (five jumps) at 51. In Korea, Lemnitzer commanded the Seventh Infantry Division, won the Silver Star for gallantry in action, in 1955 took over full command of the United Nations Forces, succeeding Max Taylor, who had gone on to be the Army's Chief of Staff...
...first sky diving parachutist of the United States. Jacques Andre Istel, Princeton '49, will speak tonight on the "Art of Parachuting" at 8 p.m. in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Istel will also show films taken at the Third World Parachuting Championships held in Moscow last summer. These are the only known aerial photogrophs of the Russian capitol taken by a westerner...
Though strongly enthusiastic about the challenges of diving the sky, David B. Burnham '55-3, former Army parachutist, re-enrolled in the University, admits there are many problems to be solved...
...parachutist is docked points for any discrepancies in timing, on the character of his control while dropping, and on his distance from the marker on landing...
...parachutes, a main and a reserve, are always worn when jumping for sport. The main is worn on the back, the reserve on the chest. In competition the parachutist carries a stopwatch and altimeter mounted on a special chest platform...