Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sport parachuting was brought to this country from France in 1956 by Jacques Istel...
...problem and excitement of jumping is to follow mind rather than emotion. Will reason win, or ancient fear? This is the beauty of the sport: it strips off everything incidental and lays bare this one great question...
...only bunch of guys who assume the by-products of the "crisis", and concentrate on the various skills such as free-fall position (before the parachute opens) and landing on target. For this reason, they seem to be the only people who see it as a sport...
What about the danger? How safe is sport parachuting? Like riding in airplanes or even in cars, it's not 100 per cent foolproof, though the statistics are overwhelmingly in favor of your coming out alive...
...convinced me of the statistical advantage and therefore talked me into jumping is Nick Soutter, a junior from Dedham who lives in Adams House. He has done more to promote sport parachuting at Harvard than all other skydivers at the College have done since 1957, when the Crimson won this country's first intercollegiate parachute tournament...