Word: parachutist
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Driving Death Wish. Hubbard believes that the typical skyjacker has two intense wishes: to fly and to flee. Sometimes he takes flying lessons in an unsuccessful effort to become a pilot. Sometimes he is "a wild parachutist." In any case, he has "a singular neurotic preoccupation with space, motion and the force of gravity," and "even dreams of being able to fly, weightlessly, like an angel or an astronaut." With his "driving death wish," he may hope to die by another's hand, fantasying that he will "rise upward to God in an antigravitational fashion...
While crowds of British vacationers gaped, the airplane came in at 1,200 ft., slowed to 120 m.p.h. Out popped an unlikely parachutist: Prince Charles, in wet suit, crash helmet and goggles, equipped with a whistle and a smoke flare in case he got lost. Not bloody likely. Standing by, according to the London Times, were "enough assault craft to have assaulted half of southern England." Teeth chattering, the 22-year-old prince was hauled into a boat within 20 seconds, fed soup, and later appeared on deck celebrating the end of his five-month flying course by sipping...
Rheault's replacement, Colonel Alexander Lemberes, said he was just as puzzled as everyone else. He had only 15 minutes to pack after being notified that he was replacing Rheault, and subsequently broke his right ankle in a hasty attempt to qualify as a parachutist -something all Green Berets must...
Ethel is no longer the prankster she was in days past, when she would string up a dummy parachutist in a tree by way of greeting General Maxwell Taylor, who parachuted into Normandy on Dday. But evenings at Hickory Hill are hardly occasions for quiet conversation. "After dinner, you never just sit around and talk, because she's not comfortable in that type of situation," says a friend. There is always an activity of some sort?charades, games of "who said that?" based on the day's news?or a movie in the playroom by the pool. A recent guest...
...astrologer, will tell her husband when to go into battle and when to stay home. The husbands listen. Officers' wives follow their husbands to the battlefield and sometimes share their fate. Duong Thi Kim Thanh was a former airborne nurse and South Viet Nam's first woman parachutist. She regularly accompanied her husband, Brigadier General Truong Quang An, to the front, carrying a commando's short-stock M-16 rifle in one hand and cakes and gifts for the troops in the other. Two months ago, she and her husband were both killed in a helicopter crash...