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...would prohibit the popular baguette, the lean French bread that weighs in at a stylish 8 oz. Crusty authorities cracked down on baguettes in January, getting a rise out of Oregonians who love the bread's light, crispy texture. The 1939 bread law was written to protect consumers against "balloon bread" that had more air than dough. But doubling the weight of the 2-ft.-long baguette would mean doubling its size. Says Portland Baker Howard Minh Le: "Who is going to buy a 4-ft. baguette?" After receiving dozens of letters and calls from baguette boosters, authorities agreed...
...highly sophisticated radar mapping of Venus by two robot Venera probes. Earlier this month the Soviets dazzled the international scientific community with their Vega 1 and Vega 2 inspections of Halley's comet. Each Vega flyby was preceded by a swing past Venus to drop an instrument-laden balloon into the planet's dense atmosphere...
MOTORIZED BROOMSTICKS, decapitated balloon-heads, hitchhiking warlords... Once again Shakespeare has been made an unwitting accomplice to the theater of the absurd, this time in Ionesco's Macbett...
...balloon release yesterday in front of Tobin Elementary School culminated a week of discussions in Cambridge schools aimed at assisting children to cope with the January 28 tragedy, said Kate Conway, a teacher at Tobin...
Maybe the most famous prank of all occurred in 1982 when, midway through the second quarter, a huge black weather balloon emerged from the field at the 45 yard line. It took workmen several minutes to dislodge the contraption, as bemused Harvard players a few feet away, en route to a 45-7 rout of Yale, paused to watch...