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...Hoffman followed his scientific bent, majoring in Astronomy, and graduating first in his class,summa cum laude. Then, without skipping a beat, Hoffman arrived at Harvard to embark on three years of gamma ray research. This work took him as far away as Argentina, where he experimented with a balloon-borne gamma-ray observatory that he designed and built...
Giovanni G. Fazio, a lecturer on Astronomy who worked with Hoffman at Harvard, says that Hoffman was "very energetic" in his desire to find sources of certain cosmic rays The balloon experiments, he adds, were designed to lift instruments above those levels of the atmosphere that could interfere with the "search for radiation from celestial objects...
...work gamed international attention recently when he used a translucent helium-filled balloon 100 times the size of the Goodyear blimp" and "as high as the John Hancock Building" in Boston to lower a 150lh. package of measuring devices repeatedly through the stratosphere...
...success of the balloon operation, Anderson explained, "is that we can enter a new generation of stratosphere exploration that will enable us to provide data from the stratosphere itself that is comparable" to lab data...
...Oates has undertaken to recount the saga of the five nubile Zinn sisters of Bloodsmoor Valley, Pa., circa 1880. For these young ladies, the trajectory of love follows the customarily lunatic lines of an Oates romance. The youngest Zinn, Deirdre, is snatched away by a stranger in "an outlaw balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive Mark Twain. Octavia marries a closet sadist and feather-boa fetishist...