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...Beautiful & Damned. In Riverside, Calif., the public library displayed some rare bookmarks left by readers: a carpenter's file, a 6-in. rubber dagger, a cut-out of Marilyn Monroe, a lottery ticket on a 1936 Ford, a deflated balloon, a ticket to the fireman's ball, a note reading, "Roises are red/ Vilets are blue/ And I HATE YOU, Jean...
Hinz has reason to know, because Ryan has built the only serious jet plane designed for vertical takeoff. Financed by the Air Force, Ryan started by testing an almost bare jet engine in a concrete cell, where it rose and fell like a captive balloon. Gradually Ryan added the wings and other makings of a real airplane, and shipped the result last summer to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert for flight testing...
Woops! There it goes again. The first division, the American balloon tire, no gear, bikes just left. My stomach feels tight, but I'm calm. I'll limber...
...imagine how that John Hart used to do it. Won three years running on a balloon tired bike. Senior year he won the bike race and then rowed a scull four miles in record time later in the afternoon. Just staggering...
...almost missed the balloon landing, but the rest of the show was exciting enough to make up for it. For the second year in a row, the Lowell House Opera Group, once a strictly small-time organization, has produced a show which for size and talent equals anything the college has to offer. Perhaps it had its rough spots, but you can't score 100 percent all the time...