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Stowaway in the Sky dangles a grandfather and a grandson from an orange balloon, and wanders, lazy as a cloud, over the fair land of France. Filmed from a helicopter in exquisite mutations of color, Stowaway is a treat for the eye and a tonic to the spirit...
...present bear market in stocks should prove no puzzle to anybody. An inflated balloon predictively bursts. Perhaps to the President must fall the dubious distinction of having furnished...
...result, he fell behind in his experiments, and began using up precious hydrogen peroxide, the fuel that is ejected as a gas to turn the capsule in flight. Says one Mercury official: "These guys all want to wobble the stick, and that's where the damn fuel goes." Balloon Bust. Little things kept going wrong. Passing over Nigeria, the temperature in Carpenter's suit went...
...washer appeared from nowhere and floated weightless around the cabin: Carpenter picked it out of midair. Approaching Guaymas, Mexico, on his first orbit, Carpenter tried one of the major experiments of his flight: he deployed a 30-in. balloon from his capsule on a nylon line to see what kind of drag it would have in the near vacuum of space. But the experiment was ruined when the multi-colored balloon inflated only partially...
...college," said a visiting headmaster. In clipped tones, Scott never stops pushing his students into the past. He even twangs the guitar and sings obscure colonial tunes. He drives himself so hard by day, says one teacher, that "at night the man is as limp as an old circus balloon." In theory, concentrating on relatively few events should force Scott to shortchange his students on others. In practice, Scott does not neglect "facts." His students do very well on College Board tests...