jumping for joy

Congratulations to George McGovern, onetime contender for president (he carried Massachusetts and the District of Columbia). Like another war hero, George Bush the elder, he celebrated a recent birthday by stepping out of an airplane at high altitude. Mr. Bush came down on a parachute; Mr. McGovern on a paraglider. Both men were combat pilots in WWII, Mr. Bush in a Navy dive bomber, Mr. McGovern as commander of a lumbering B-24 Liberator bomber. Two of his grandchildren were on hand for the dive. Mr. McGovern is 88, and he hopes to live to be 100. Considering the alternative, so do I. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford