Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rather touched" when a British stripling agreed to defend him in a school debate over which of four prominent men should be jettisoned to save a sinking balloon, Billionaire U.S. Oilman J. Paul Getty promptly supplied his paladin with a suggested brief. Unaware that his hypothetical fellow travelers were to be Fidel Castro, British Playwright John Osborne and Philosopher-Demagogue Bertrand Russell, Getty wrote: "I am only 13 stone [182 Ibs.] and therefore probably lighter than the rest. If there are other millionaires there, I'm probably the youngest at 68, so the oldsters should go." Finally came...
...information has been made public, but besides estimating the power of the Russian blast at 30 megatons, the U.S. confirmed the fact that it took place at 12,000 ft. above the ground. The bomb was carried aloft by a rocket, perhaps, or, more likely, suspended from a captive balloon. However it was hoisted, the bomb's height was carefully chosen to minimize local fallout. If the fireball did not touch the ground before it stopped expanding, little or none of its radioactive material would mix with pulverized soil blown out of its massive crater...
...Deadly Balloon. No responsible authority believes that fallout from the Soviet tests is strong enough yet to damage health. But authorities point out that weather and other uncertain factors can concentrate fallout to high local levels. And the worst is still to come: most of the dangerous radioactive products of the Soviet tests are still floating high in the stratosphere. No one can predict how much harm they will do when they eventually come down...
After the bomb's fireball has expanded to full size (1½ miles diameter for a one-megaton bomb), the cloud of hot gas rises like a balloon, dragging with it a column of dust. Some of the dust falls to the ground within a few hours, becoming part of the local fallout. The rest climbs high in the atmosphere with the cooling, condensing cloud...
...party of balloonists promptly undertook to fly over The Great Eyrie and see what they could see. They never made it. As the balloon approached the summit, a peculiar projectile came whooshing up and-splat! The gasbag fell into a crater. When the passengers came to their senses, they found themselves aboard the sort of crazy airship schoolboys have been sketching ever since Jules Verne produced those tomes of fantascience (Master of the World, Robur the Conqueror] that inspired this properly naive and lively little subteen special...