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...Thanksgiving, viewers could spend hours watching what seemed the same parade marching endlessly through the streets of Manhattan, Philadelphia and Detroit, while a variety of announcers mimicked each other's intonations of synthetic joy at the sight of inflated balloon-figures, lavish floats loaded with pretty girls baring all their teeth, and determinedly jolly Santa Clauses. Just about every news show on the air scored a mass Thanksgiving Day scoop by showing some 200 banqueting vegetarians in Manhattan eating soybean roast instead of turkey and trimmings...
...date and hour at which the spaceship was allegedly seen, and figured the position of the sun. They noted meteorological conditions, the reliability of the informant and his training. They recorded the color, brightness, speed, elevation, etc. of each "aerial object." They took account of related events, such as balloon-launchings. They noted whether the object had been seen by eye or radar. They put these details on punch cards and ran them through sorting machines to see how many sightings there were in each category...
...Balloons & Feathers. The school's 150 pupils range from 4½ to the late teens. When they enter Clarke, many have never said a word, not even their own names. To get the sound "buh-buh-buh" across, a teacher may place her lips against a balloon, while the pupil places his on the other side. As the sound is repeated, the pupil learns it from the vibrations he feels. The "f" sound can be taught by holding a feather close to the mouth and seeing how it flutters when the consonant is spoken correctly. Puffing at a slip...
...with the winds. If it increases the normal air glow, it can be followed, perhaps for considerable distances. A cloud of sodium of known origin picked up by astronomers' instruments in the Eastern states will be a fine way to measure wind velocity at levels that no weather balloon can reach...
...Balloon or Cylinder. Before this fiery end, a satellite will serve its creators in many ways. One type (many different kinds can be shot into space) may be merely visible: a balloon that expands out of the nose of the final stage of a multistage rocket. It can be followed by telescope or perhaps by radar, and the path that it follows around the earth will give information about the density of the upper atmosphere. If big enough, this kind of satellite will appear at dusk as a bright and rapidly moving star that rises in the west...