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Nicholas B. Soutter, the band's attorney, said yesterday, "The Massachusetts State Police and Howard Johnson's have been very sympathetic and cooperative thus far." He feels that there is a "fairly good chance that the charges won't be pressed...
...meet came as a shock since the Crimson second team of John Leibacher, William Bacon, and Jack Lawrence with a total of 60 jumps between its members defeated a number of highly favored opponents, in particular the first team, a 600 jump unit. The first unit includes Nickolas Soutter, Bob Thompson, and Dave Wigner...
Here are some of the things 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...
...Soutter, a New 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...
...Soutter is the only Harvard undergraduate serving as an executive member of the C.P.C., which includes many students from other New England colleges. He heads up a group of about ten Harvard students who jump regularly as members of the C.P.C at Mansfield, the traditional headquarters for Crimson teams. Presently, this group is preparing to represent Harvard in the national intercollegiates, to be held in Orange...