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...retort, Reischauer said that "the balloon which we would deflate in our allies' minds is one that we have blown up with our own hot air." Claiming that our policy with regard to China is "arrant nonsense and complete unrealism," he suggested that a slow change in American policy would give our allies time to adjust...
...honorably that its teams have won 24 games, lost 20. But to his astonishment, Thompson soon learned that football is no laughing matter-even at Brown. His phone rang night and day with anonymous threatening calls from sullen students. Curious to see how Brown would react to more balloon pricking, Thompson stuck tongue farther in cheek, called for the abolition of the Navy and the FBI. His phone jangled louder than ever...
...midweek Barber was back on page 8. The cause: brown-eyed Balloon Girl Rosemary Mudie, 30, who, along with three male companions, was towed into Barbados by a fisherman after a 24-day, 3,000-mile air and sea passage from the Canary Islands in the boat-bottomed balloon Small World. Headlined Rosemary...
Small World's landing came as a relief to Mail editors. They had touted the balloon flight as the Kon-Tiki voyage of the air, then began to downplay it when the balloon Small World was unreported for three weeks. When reports of the voyage's success reached London, the Mail changed its type face, said Small World's success was "certainly anticipated," roared "we take responsibility for it." In Barbados Mail reporters took command. The Mail had bought all but American rights to the story...
...week's end, in a burst of judgment, the Mail decided the British recognition of Fidel Castro and his revolutionary government in Cuba was Page One fare. But by then, many a Mail reader cared little for such trivia, hurriedly turned to inside pages in search of the balloon girl and Reporter Barber in Tibet...