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Until then, cosmic rays had been measured only to 80,000 ft. by balloon. The V-2s carried cosmic-ray instruments up 100 miles, measuring cosmic rays and making Van Allen, incidentally, an authority on instrumentation of rockets. They also brought him into close contact with nearly all of the pioneer U.S. rocketmen, especially William Pickering, soon to head the Army's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena...
Orange-Juice Victory. The first balloon rose properly to 70,000 ft., but the rocket hanging under it did not fire. The second Rockoon behaved in the same maddening way. On the theory that extreme cold at high altitude might have stopped the clockwork supposed to ignite the rockets, Van Allen heated cans of orange juice, snuggled them into the third Rockoon's gondola, and wrapped the whole business in insulation. The rocket fired...
Jessie sat on the Gordon Linen sacks in the Radcliffe Quad putting forsythia into her hair. Suddenly she shot upwards and ran spring-like towards an oncoming Volkswagen. "Clipper!" she shouted, "I want to go ride the swan boats. I want to buy a balloon and blow bubbles and ride the swan boats...
...Where?" asked Clipper. But Jessie was already running ahead towards the balloon...
...toothache snub of Harold Macmillan (TIME, March 9), worried British officials made it plain in press briefings that Khrushchev was not interested at all in German reunification, and barely curious about British talk of reducing troop strength in Europe. But ever since then, Harold Macmillan has floated one trial balloon after another about what arms bargains might be struck with the Russians. And when these notions have been shot down by Britain's partners, much of the British press has reacted as if Macmillan and Khrushchev had a workable peace formula that Britain's allies were systematically sabotaging...