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...Most parachute injuries are leg fractures and ankle sprains. Captain William J. Tobin of Fort Benning reported that since the adoption last June of a new technique of landing with both feet together instead of shoulder-width apart (the old technique-see cut), parachute injuries have dropped from 1.54% to 1%. In 250,000 jumps since July 1940, there have been only nine deaths...
...MacCool was first & foremost a fighter (he killed Aillin, a goblin who was annoying Ireland) but he also took a little exercise for fun. He could outrun a hare or stag, and he could wing a wild duck with the first stone from his sling. He could jump the width of Ireland (115 miles) in three "leps." Finn once licked two hurling teams singlehanded. They ganged up on him (as hurling players still do) but he killed seven and chased the rest away. Next day he found them swimming. They dared him to come in. Finn drowned them...
...showed that the entire body, from head to toes, had been pummeled and beaten, on the ears and neck, forehead and temples, arms, hands, chest,' kidneys, thighs, legs. Scarcely a spot was untouched; hardly a blood vessel intact. The doctors noted that many a bruise was the exact width of a police club...
Between them lies a 14-ft. width of no man's land. Within the wire, the POWs wait through their days: sullen, unreconstructed Nazis, cheerful Italians. Among the guests: several Italian generals...
Colonel Were, who began his work last year, has been using ten feet to a mile so that the over-all length is about eight yards with a width of two yards. The contour interval is 20 feet, allowing accurate elevations on the model. Colonel Ware has used a ply-wood base which he has covered with special cloth. Lightly sprinkled over the cloth is sand and artificial grass which makes a puff or hole when an shell lands...