Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talented Latin American history major lets the compliments come her way; she is reluctant to praise herself, even a little. She quickly passes over her three-sport high school career at St. Bernard's in Uncasville, Conn., brushing aside the details of a tennis-basketball-track triple that included some fine performances throwing the javelin...
...perhaps the most popular of the 120 formal contests held every year in the U.S. The meet started in 1969 when parachuting was just beginning to take hold in this country, and it has managed to maintain a special appeal while jumping has become a highly organized international sport, one now dominated by Americans. Part of the lure of the meet is simply the Florida weather: only the hardest of the hard core like to jump in northern climes when winter is coming on and the temperature at 12,000 ft. may hover at 0°F. This year some...
...into the 70s. George McCulloch of Syracuse is 73; he has 875 jumps and still does eight-man team work. Eleven percent of USPA members are women. They fly on many of the teams here at the turkey meet. At first, in the years after World War II, most sport jumpers were ex-paratroopers. Now they are your neighbors, your sons and daughters...
Jumping is status blind. The sport includes bankers and physicians, lawyers, grocery clerks, house painters, schoolteachers, coal miners and college students. Jock Covey, Henry Kissinger's ex-aide and now chief of the State Department's Israel desk, has 725 jumps. Wolfgang Halbig, 31, a University of Dusseldorf urologist, with 1,200 jumps, is one of 15 Germans here. "When you freefall, it doesn't matter whether you clean the road or you're a doctor," he says. "You just...
Today the sport of competitive parachuting is based on forming intricate patterns of falling bodies in the sky. At Zephyrhills, teams of four, eight, ten, 16 and 20 jumpers go through from one to six formations in sequence during their 55 sec. of free fall from 12,500 ft. They perform a kind of aerial ballet, creating doughnuts and diamonds, wedges and stars. The jumpers carefully rehearse their maneuvers, choreographing the sequences on paper, then running through them over and over on the ground, in what are called "dirt dives...