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...about the affair called By the Time I Get to Phoenix. As recorded by Glen Campbell, it rose medium-high in the bestseller charts and won Campbell a Grammy award for the best male vocal performance of 1967. Meantime, Webb and a friend were planning a movie about a balloon trip. The only part of the venture that got off the ground was Webb's title song. It was recorded by The 5th Dimension, and it soared high in the charts, sold 875,000 copies and won some more Grammies. Trans World Airlines bought the rights...
...structure of the basic program of courses is still a little bit up in the air as the new department gets ready to float its trial balloon next year. But as it now stands the course requirements go like this...
Kennedy had no compunction whatever about trying to shoulder McCarthy aside a mere few hours after the votes were in. Yet between Wednesday morning, when he loosed his reassessment arrow at McCarthy's balloon, and Thursday night, when he made the irrevocable decision to go ahead, Kennedy went through some elaborate maneuvers. He met privately with
...flight from Amsterdam to Paris in 1965, French Astrophysicist Jacques Blamont had a sad tale to tell his traveling companion. Because of faulty equipment, every photographic plate of groups of stars exposed during a complex and expensive balloon-borne telescope experiment had been hopelessly blurred. The companion, University of Michigan Electrical Engineer George Stroke, was less discouraged. "Don't throw anything away," he urged Blamont. "Give me time and I'll get pictures out of your ruined film...
...soon as he has perfected his technique, Stroke says, holographic deblurring should become invaluable in salvaging out-of-focus pictures from deep space probes, balloon flights, aerial reconnaissance and other photographic missions that are difficult to repeat. Eventually, Stroke's process may be used to bring a professional sharpness to the pictures of even the most inept amateur photographer...