Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plucky Myopic. Reckless physical bravery is often expected of Kennedy guests, and the quickest road to acceptance for an outsider is some act of dazzling physical courage. As many as three "draggers" hang onto life preservers towed behind the Kennedy sloop Victura. The stiffer the breeze, the better the sport-since the dragger thus swallows more waves and finds it harder not to drown...
...passing French photographer did a double take. There, dressed in checkered sport coat and dark slacks, and looking unfamiliar out of his Air Force blue, sat NATO's retiring Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Lauris Norstad, 55, taking his ease at a small café in tiny Marnes-la-Coquette near his French headquarters for twelve years. The youthful-looking general, who is quitting as of Nov. 1 due partly to a heart condition, has been a military nomad so long that he has no home of his own. He has not decided what to do-after the first...
...Sport parachuting in this country has boomed over the past few years, as it has throughout the world. Jumping centers are specially popular in California and Arizona, as well as in Massachusetts...
There have been over 5,000 sport parachute jumps made at Mansfield--and at least that many at Orange--resulting in no fatalities whatsoever. Last year there were 60,000 jumps made in this country, resulting in six fatalities--none of which attributable to parachute malfunction (a suicide two drownings, two "freezes" on non-static-line jumps, and one electrocution resulting from a landing in high wires...
...That sport parachuting has caught on at Harvard can be seen by the fact that an increasing number of students are jumping to enhance their "variety of experience", and by the fact that at least one member of the faculty has started to jump...