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...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...
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Another showing of,Albert Lamorisse's The Red Balloon, perhaps the finest short motion picture yet made...
...sprightly line drawings, a baby toad happens upon an ox and rushes home to tell Mamma about its wondrous size. Proud of her own size and disdainful of "being outdone by any living creature," Mamma Toad puffs and puffs until she resembles a huge balloon. Then: "With all her might she puffed to the bursting point-and burst into little pieces...