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...that Soutter pointed out to me: You jump with an emergency parachute on your chest which you deploy in case of a malfunction in the main canopy. On your first five jumps, in accordance with Parachuts Club of America regulations, you use a static line, which means that your rip cord is pulled for you as soon as you leave the plane...
...England safety officer licensed by the P.C.A., told me that he had taken 489 students through static-line jumps--in none of which did the main canopy fail. And he showed me how a parachute works, how the several tough, elastic bands throw the pack open when the rip cord is pulled, and how, at the same instant, the pilot chute (a miniature parachute that pulls the main canopy out) hurtles almost 20 feet into the air by the force of its own compressed spring system...
Ohio River, Ky., Indiana University Showboat Majestic: The showboat will tie up at Louisville for a variety show, then paddle downstream to West Point, Ky., and Brandenburs, Ky., with Rip Van Winkle...
...typical. Says Co-Owner Harry Schwimmer: "When we have a banquet or a bachelor party, they don't play cards after dinner like they used to; they congregate around the piano, throw their arms around each other's shoulders, drink their beer, puff their cigars, and rip off the good old songs.'' But the pianola's biggest comeback is in the parlor. Many buyers are women who recall the pleasure of pumping one as a child and want to share the fun with their own kids. In suburban Elmhurst, 111., Mrs. Janet Carman, a banker...
...from a mild heart attack suffered in March. The scoffers could scoff and the skeptics could skept, but Powell was in dead earnest about grabbing for the brass ring in 1964. He had already laid out a set of plans, based mainly on his record as a rip-roaring stump speaker, a perpetual-motion campaigner-and a fellow who has never seemed to know when he was whipped...