Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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America's newest and probably most exciting sport, diving the sky, was outlined last night by Jacques Andre Istel, Princeton '49 and captain of the United States Parachuting Team, at a meeting in Lowell House...
...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...
...present Ring is freighted with virtually the same visual improbabilities that burdened it in the past. Ponderous gods and goddesses lumbered clumsily toward one another across the gigantic stage. Papier-mâché dragons belched steam, dwarfs disappeared in clouds of vapor, magic fires raced across the sky at the wave of a wand. For reasons of economy, the Met made no effort to replace the worn sets originally designed and constructed for the Ring nearly a decade ago. A complete restaging, estimates Manager Bing, would cost a prohibitive $300,000. Though he refuses to go to Bayreuth because...
...rules of the game were laid down long ago by Mair, the hantan hero-god who lives in the blue sky (which is solid, and rests on the circular rim of the earth like a blue derby). Mair used to make all human beings in a pot, but one day a silly woman walked past one of the pots and peeked into it-ruining a half-made baby. Mair was so angry that he picked up the fetus and threw it in the woman's belly. "That'll teach you to be inquisitive," he said...
...lives in the trees "like a very large spider monkey" and has "red hair, red eyes, a blue penis, and blue bones." Of course all this crew is active only at night, when the stars-"which are attached to the sky by a little stalk" -push out their heads, led by Grandfather Cotton (the Southern Cross) and Grandfather Many Things (the Pleiades...