Proverbial Parachutes

[George Thompson]

“You pull the ripcord on the parachute you packed,” he said. “Not the parachute you wish you had packed.”
NY Times, June 15, 2010, section A, p. 16, col. 5 (continuation of first page story "Efforts to Repel Gulf Spill Are Described as Chaotic")

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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