Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opportunity to advance his own nationalist faction through a purge of Jewish Communists. Could the revival of anti-Semitic rhetoric signal a new bid for power by the wily general? "It's a good bet," noted a West German diplomat. "This could have been a Moczar trial balloon...
...planning advice, and pays the taxi insurance for cabbies who send in 50 or more people for sterilization; so far, six drivers have qualified. At village fairs and festivals, he shows up in a well-polished minibus to deliver his snake-oil monologue on the glories of contraception, organizing balloon-blowing ontests with condoms and teaching youngsters his hard-hitting song Too Many Children Make You Poor. Says he: I wanted to remove the taboo, take birth control out of the realm of the secretive and make...
...same as Phileas Fogg's, the means even less down to earth. In a gossamer-thin (.004 in.) polyurethane balloon rigged with a 14-ft. by 10-ft. unpressurized gondola, famed Aeronaut Maxie Anderson, 46, set out from Luxor, Egypt, last week, along with fellow Businessman and Adventurer Don Ida, 47. Their plan: to travel eastward around the world-south of Iran and the U.S.S.R. (hostile airspace), south of the Himalayas (deadly to balloons), over the Pacific and North America to an eastern Mediterranean landing spot-in less than ten days. To complete the high-speed journey, the eleven...
...struck out on his own. With a vengeance. He plays to packed lecture halls around the country; sometimes, he appears with a helium balloon which he releases while yelling the question "How high is the market going?" Other nights he comes dressed as Moses, complete with tablets full of investment advice. He castigates Wall Street professionals as "bag holders" (the title of a novel he is currently writing) and "losers." Not only that, he predicts earthquakes, although he always adds sincerely that this is "one prediction I hope I'm wrong about." And after a hard day on the road...
Meanwhile, Carter Administration officials broke some alarming news about the budget: in fiscal 1981, which ends Sept. 30, federal spending is now expected to balloon to $663 billion, and the deficit to total about $56 billion, second in size and impact only to the $66 billion rung up in 1976. Some advisers recommended delaying until July 1 the sweeping income tax cuts that Reagan has promised in order to keep the deficit from swelling even further; others insisted on asking Congress to make the cuts retroactive to Jan. 1, as first planned...