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Stretching a Bit. Still, the demands of modern life are such that even the Orthodox have had to stretch Halakah a bit. Rabbi Shlomo Goren, parachutist chief rabbi of the Israeli armed forces, has ruled that soldiers can work on the Sabbath for the sake of national security and that electricity may be used on holy days because it is not the same as the fire whose kindling on the Sabbath was forbidden by Exodus. England's newly elected Orthodox Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits (TIME, Aug. 26) recently got around the traditional Orthodox opposition to birth control by ruling...
Died. Nicholas Piantanida, 33, U.S. parachutist, who tried last May to make a free-fall jump from 125,000 ft., was injured when his oxygen system failed during the balloon ascent 57,000 ft. above Minnesota and emergency efforts to get him down did not prevent 31 minutes of oxygen starvation, causing brain damage and a coma from which he never awakened; of cardiorespiratory failure; in Philadelphia...
...speed, stabilizing and gently guiding Surveyor along the proper trajectory toward its impact point. When it was 13 ft. above the lunar surface and descending at 3.3 m.p.h., the 620-lb. Surveyor shut down its verniers and fell the remaining distance. It struck the moon no harder than a parachutist hits the earth. And even this relatively small jolt was cushioned by hydraulic shock absorbers and crushable aluminum pads under Surveyor's legs and body...
...Italian boot, the water was opalescent last July, as it always is when the Mediterranean sunlight hits the white bottom ooze and is reflected and refracted up to the surface. Thirty feet down, John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, Master of Quincy House, sometime archeologist, onetime boxer and parachutist, and would-be aviator, was scuba diving...
...BOLD MEN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Tales of specialists in courage, including Parachutist Rod Pack, who falls 10,600 ft. before a mid-air meeting with a fellow sky diver carrying an extra parachute...