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...four long wings sticking out of its sides-rotated slowly, like some ominous unearthly creature. In fact, the odd contraption was a practical terrestrial creation. Designed by the All American Engineering Co. of Wilmington, Del., the Aerocrane, as it is called, is an unlikely cross between helicopter and balloon. It should easily outperform both in at least one important respect: the ability to hoist huge weights straight up from the ground and transport them across the countryside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Big Lift | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...Islands to perform a magic show. He sent invitations to all the black diplomats and sent limousines out to have them picked up, and they all showed up and they hadn't been invited..." Which clears up the mystery of what happened to The Wizard of Oz when the balloon burst. 8 at Dunster House; there's a review on page 2, I believe...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: THE STAGE | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

...other, pausing only to draw breath. A nanny waddles past, pushing a baby carriage and cooing at the unseen inhabitant, while an agonized dog-owner watches his best friend lift its leg over the ankles of a policeman. Gradually the park begins to throb with activity: a priest, a balloon man, a pair of lovers, a mother dragging two children at the end of either arm. More than a dozen characters seem to people the stage, although there is only one man up there. He is all of them. He is Marcel Marceau...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Silent Witness to the Lives of Men | 4/16/1974 | See Source »

Alice in Wonderland and The Red Balloon Saturday, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 3/14/1974 | See Source »

...Tigers, behind senior substitute Joe Vavricka and Mickey Steurer, pulled away, just as Penn had the night before when the Crimson threatened. At the end, the Tigers went into a stall and Sanders's squad, reduced to fouling deliberately, saw the final point-spread balloon...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Tigers Topple Crimson Cagers, 65-53 | 2/19/1974 | See Source »

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