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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 9, 1966 | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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