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Describing sky diving, Istel said "There is no sensation of falling, you drop from the plane and swoop down through the air making controlled turns and banks and then after thirty seconds open your parachute...
...accused, most of whom had been arrested in one big countrywide swoop early last month (TIME, Dec. 17), included 23 whites, 105 Negroes, 21 Asians and seven mixed-blood "coloreds." They were clergymen, doctors, lawyers, educators and trade unionists, and their real offense was not treason as it is understood in Anglo-Saxon law but bitter opposition to the apartheid racist policies of Premier Johannes Strydom. Under South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act. anyone who aims at "the encouragement of feelings of hostility between European and non-European" can be declared a Communist-and therefore, presumptively, a traitor...
...smoke-filled nook in the grill of Chicago's Democrat-bulged Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel. Dining together are Kentucky's blackhorse presidential candidate, guffaw-prone Governor Albert B. ("Be lucky, go Happy!") Chandler, and Chicago's weighty Democratic Boss Jacob Arvey. Enter, with a dust-devilish swoop, Washington's plain-spoken Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta. Grandam Mesta (to Chandler): I hear that you are running for President, but you certainly aren't taking yourself seriously, are you? "Happy" Chandler (hurt to the quick): I certainly am. I'm spending my own money...
...wherever gores and gussets were discussed by experts, Christian Dior's name led all the rest. Mindful of the dismal failure of 1954's sad-sack flat look, Dior had turned out a collection of slinky new gowns that puff up the bosom, pinch down the rump, swoop low around the neckline. Exulted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "Dior has designed a collection for the men this time. The kept lady look. The undressed look...
...Civil War, and the lone figure moving across the vast plain is none other than lean, leathery, disenchanted John Wayne, still wearing bits of his Confederate uniform, still looking for trouble. Trouble finds him. One day, while John's back is turned, Chief Scar and his wild Comanches swoop down and massacre his relatives, carrying off two young girls for their own fell purposes...