Word: stuntmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aeronautics Administration about safety regulations for parachuting for fun, similar to those in Europe, where jumping instruction is as rigidly controlled as the classics course in a French lycée. At this stage, Istel fears, a major accident would probably give the sport back to the country-fair stuntmen. His gospel spread to another important corner. Istel hustled back to his exurbanite home in New York's upper Westchester County to practice what he preaches. This week Istel will lead an American team of four parachutists to Yugoslavia to compete in an invitational meet against some...
...moving cavalcade of memorable events, e.g., Roger Bannister outracing John Landy, Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning homer for the New York Giants in 1951, Seabiscuit's 1938 triumph over War Admiral. For change of pace, Big Moment showed a basketball-court brawl, inspected the antics of aquatic stuntmen, took a slow-motion look at a disputed football play. This week it will picture Jack Fleck's U.S. Open golf victory over Ben Hogan in 1955, the 1942 race between Alsab and Whirlaway, the Army-Navy football game of 1948 (Army 21, Navy 21), and in weeks...