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  1. MILESTONES, Page 68      
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  3.     DIED. Roch Pierre Charmet, 59, world-record holder for the most
  4. parachute jumps (14,650 in more than 30 years); when his parachute,
  5. which he packed himself, failed to open fully during a 2,500-ft.
  6. drop; near Sheridan, Ore. Charmet, who learned to jump while
  7. serving in the French Foreign Legion in Algeria in the 1950s, often
  8. said he lived by the chutist's adage: "Only sky divers know why
  9. birds sing."