Word: parachutist
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...good enough to fight as a parachutist in the army, and to be working now on a high-priority project for the Defense Ministry," says Avshalom furiously. He refused to answer his last call-up for military service, told his commanding officer: "If I am not a Jew, you have no right to call me to serve.'' Said Shula last week: "If we don't succeed in our suit, we'll go to the missionaries and ask to be converted to Christianity, and the church will marry us. We can't afford...
...himself militarily. He is Clifton F. Von Kann '37, former baseball manager, who is a Brigadier General, the Director of Army Aviation, and a former Assistant Chief of Staff. He has won many decorations, including: Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Commendation Ribbon with Metal Pendant, the Senior Parachutist Badge, the Army Aviation Badge, the War Department General Staff Identification Device, the Cross of Military Victor (Italian), and the Presidential Citation (Republic of Korea...
...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...
...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...