Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Once home, Charlie finds his wife itchy and bitchy, his little boy unteachable and unreachable. Miserably, he wanders into a mythically peaceful and green meadow near by. There, a huge red-and-yellow ascension balloon sits waiting, like the swan boat in Lohengrin. He clambers aboard and cuts the ropes, borne free to oblivion...
...Model Cities Convention--held in balloon-festooned St. Mary's Auditorium--voted to have a 24-member City Demonstration Agency in charge. Residents of the model neighborhood will elect 16 of their number to serve on the agency...
...Besides the difficulty of tailoring the transplant to fit, Surgeon Kantrowitz saw another problem: the donor heart almost certainly could not pump enough blood at first, although it might later increase its capacity. He decided to transplant the heart but to assist it for a while with a helium balloon pump inserted through a thigh artery and placed in Block's aorta. This device (TIME, Aug. 25) has worked well for five patients in shock and near death after heart attacks...