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...limited floor space in their freshman dorm when Jeff Robinson knocked at the door. Eight years had lapsed since Jeff's family left the Wisconsin town Beth grew up in and she probably wouldn't have remembered him if she hadn't once seen him throw a water balloon at their Sunday school principal. Their families still exchanged Christmas cards and Jeff was dutifully obeying maternal commandment to "check up on little Bethie" during her first week at Harvard...
...seven-story navigation balloon, bearing the name of the club and of its new production "Cardinal Knowledge," will serve to direct those who cannot find Harvard St.--if the club can fit it in Quincy Square, Diane L. Nabatoff '77, club publicity manager, said yesterday...
...Compleat Birdman wittily analyzes the unearthly urge that inspired biblical figures, Leonardo da Vinci and just about everyone else who ever wanted to trade the land for the wind. Here is Simon Magus, an early Roman necromancer who rose skyward (possibly by means of a balloon) before a crowd that included St. Peter. To the relief of the early Christian spectators, Magus suffered an instant-and fatal-crash. Haining wistfully relates the tale of Bladud, a doomed 9th century British king, who borrowed a page from Greek mythologies and perished like Icarus with a pair of feather-and-wax wings...
Keeping a Carter down on the peanut farm these days is not easy. The President-elect's younger brother Billy, 39, figured it would be a lark to go up, up and away in a hot-air balloon. "I ain't worried about getting up," he said. "It's coming down." A contingent of reporters big enough for a moon shot watched Billy soar aloft, narrowly missing a utility pole, and sail over the pine trees of Americus, Ga., with the pilot and a friend. Billy blithely ignored federal recommendations that ballooners use hard hats. Instead...
...pigeons in flight over the crowd, an exercise that produced history's most massive precision drill: the simultaneous holding of souvenir programs over 63,036 heads. Other wonders: a 30-foot statue of a Green Bay Packer snorting smoke from three-foot-wide flared nostrils; a hot-air balloon that, too cold to climb out of the stadium, drifted into the stands and was torn apart by fans. The N.F.L. went superpatriotic in 1972, when it staged a flyover by Air Force jets, having arranged for a plane to peel off into the "missing man" formation while P.O.W. families looked...