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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Furlough facts author Howard Gregory in Happy style. Ii adopted. Who can land the closest to a target on the ground what team can sail the longest through the skies with out parachutes and at the same time pass a Baton or a Watermelon or an Orange from hand to hand who can free fall from the greatest height watching these Aerial acrobatics most Normal people Are inclined to View the parachutists As a strange Breed of humans like people who get them selves shot out of cannons or join Polar ear clubs and go swimming in de Cember or Brave men who wrestle alligators. Not so says Gregory himself a ardent parachutist. In one of his More restrained passages he writes Para Chuting is an exhilarating fascinating sport and the True parachutist in a Dis Cussion will either defend the sport with absolute Devotion or in classic snobbery he will not defend it pitying the non  Gregory continues describing a typical club meeting like Falcons falling they leave the plane High above the quilted Earth and for 60 seconds the Clear Blue sky is full of falling bodies doing aerobatics taking pictures tracking and moving horizontally up to 70 Miles per hour. Others Are diving steeply to join the group and make a Multi Hookup. Eventually the Many coloured parachutes beg into Blossom. These Are sports parachutists participating in the space age sport of skydiving they Are the Falcon s  to Gegory there Are at least 35,000 men and women in the unite states who Are hipped on the sport. Ikvljj.-"-i4 i As i i a a dear Ann Landers i met unattractive woman three months a \ she was waiting for Abus we have been going out a Marly once a week and 1c\ her company. Yvonne is Dud and has two children Whit the judge awarded to her he. And. She is not allowed to see twin which i find very hard to understand. According to her the judge gave her a Rotten  Small things about Yvonne bother me and i d like your views. She refuses to give me her phone number says shelves in a boarding House where the people Are very Nosy. Shewn t let me pick her up at Home and i have never Bee allowed to see her to the door. Her self imposed curfew is10 . She says she had to years ago and must have a lot of rest j have never met any of her friends or relatives and she will not Tell be where she works says it is confidential for the government. What do you make of this Alfie dear Alfie a lady who can the picked up or taken Home refuses to Tell where she works won t give you her phone num Ber and has to be in by 10 .is hiding soviet Hong he maybe a husband. My advice is to Knock off this spooky arrange ment. Page 14 i Hope you make a better selection next time Alfric and your chances will be vastly improved if you Don t go in for bus Stop pickups. Dear Ann Landers after Reading your suggestion for Cooling anger squeeze an Eggin the Palm of your hand the less said about that one the better it occurred to me that i should share my secret solution for fighting Between kids. When our two boys reached the wiling Point we would hand them each a rag and some win Dow cleaner and Tell them to go Wash the opposite sides of the same window. They had orders to stay with it until the anger disappeared. This Way the boys were a Leto spar off without touching each other because neither would risk breaking the Glass. Eventually their eyes had to meet and they would end up laughing. We never had a broken pane or a broken nose and we prob Abl had the cleanest window sin town. California women s editor dear . Thank you Foran excellent suggestion. I endorse it wholeheartedly for people who have ranch style Homes that is but not for Folk who live in High Rise apart Here is a selection of Tours planned for the memorial Day weekend1.berlin by Aik May 30-Juno 2, for $42.95 and up. Included arc sightseeing Tours of West and East Berlin lodging and break fasts and a welcoming lunch. London by motor Coachi May 28-june 2, for $69.95 and up for two sightseeing Tours of London und ample time for shopping and optional Tours such As Windsor Castle or to Eton or the Shakespeare country. Overnights and breakfasts Are included and on the Way Back to Germany a sightseeing tour in Brussels Gay Copenhagen by motor coach May 28-june 2, for $70 As and up half pension sightseeing Copenhagen and an excursion to Kronborg Castle. Gems of Switzerland by motor coach May 30-june 2, or$42.95 and up visiting Zurich Lucerne and Berne. Holland Belgium and Luxemburg by motor coach May 30-june 2 for $52.95 and up. Vienna and the festival City of Salzburg by motor coach may29-june 2, for $55.95 and up. Florence by rail May 29-june 2, for $53.95 and  skiing in St. Moritz May 29-june 2, for $55.95 and up. Even in summertime the 10, 830-foot Corv Tseh is covered wild Snow and offers skiing areas. Paris by motor coach May 29-june 2, for $33.95 and  East air cruise june 19-june 30, for $359.95. This tour goes to Athens Tel Aviv Capernaum Jerusalem Bethlehem Jericho Beirut. Baalbek and Cairo. Flights meals and extensive sightseeing Tours Are included. For More information Contact Theta Nus District special services Tours office �. Farben bid., Apo 09757, at Frankfurt military 8630, or civil 592450. � � memorial Day weekend can be stretched from wednesday evening May 29, to sunday night june 2, if you participate in a special charter flight to London from Frankfurt. The round trip Price is $55 for flight Only. You must make your own hotel . Forces travelling to London should Contact the Columbia club officer phone Paddington 8281, or the Douglas House enlisted Menat Paddington 6091. For details on the flight Contact the Taurus District special services Tours office phone Frankfurt military 8630, or civil 5924 r of or the Wiesbaden Community Center phone military 23651. A holy land pilgrimage by commercial Jet is scheduled from May 4-13 and is sponsored by chaplain Frank d. Metcalf Ramsten air base the Price is $345 All  following places will be visited Beirut Baalbek by bios. Tel Aviv Caesarea Haifa Nazareth Tiberias the sea of , Capernaum Jerusalem Bethlehem Jericho Bethany the dead sea the Jordan River and  More information on the above tour phone ram Stem Mili tary 7819 or 6611. Merits. Think of something else please. Dear Ann Landers pleas print this for All the stupid girls in the world who Are see ing men who Are separated but not divorced. Maybe if i had seen a letter like it three years ago i would t be so full of nerve Medicine that i can barely write this  1965 i fell hard for a Man who said i was his dream  and his wife were not get Ting along and a divorce Wasin the works. I let him move in with the understanding that we would be married As soon As his divorce came through. Afew months later when his divorce was final he said Hewan t ready to give up his Reedom  years have passed and to still in t ready. He is out four nights a week and i Pace the floor smoking and crying. Iam 26 years old and broke1 pay most of the Bills. My reputation is Guinea and my health is shot. 1 know now he will never marry me but 1 still love him in spite of everything. I you care to add something to my letter that might Hel others please do so. It s too late to help  at 26 dear d i have nothing Todd. You be said it All copyright 1068. Publisher mall Syndicate the stars and stripes Goren on Bridge East West vulnerable. North deals. North 4 109s?qj8 0 q76jg542 West East 4 q3742 j53 Tribune wednesday May 1, i968 la  
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