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What excitement there was came after the balloting. In London on election night, crowds 15,000-strong thronged the traditional gathering places, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus, to watch the returns posted on huge bulletin boards. Balloon hawkers ("Red, a tanner, blue, a tanner") did a brisk business in party symbols, while raucous students, their colleges identifiable by the color of their scarves, greeted the election results with boos and cheers. The crowd's mood was more festive than partisan. Piccadilly's streetwalkers were out in three times their usual force, and a cordon of policemen surrounded...
...elevator I counted seven signs; innumerable posters covered acquaintance dance notices on the bulletin board, and I had to fight my way through cardboard and scotch tape to get out of the front door. On the way out I noticed one girl had lost her chances when her campaign balloon was burst by a cigarette. All over the Quadrangle election fever was running high...
This is not meant to condone rape, but merely to point out that a sizable share of the responsibility for such crimes must rest with a nation in which balloon brassieres are the fashion, and girls like Dagmar and Jane Russell can command a larger salary than the nation's President...
...Skyrocket passed altitude records: the top flight of jet planes (59,446 ft.); his own earlier records (secret). Finally he passed the highest of all: the record 72,395-ft. balloon flight of balloonists Captain Orvil A. Anderson* and the late Captain Albert W. Stevens in 1935. Just how high he got, the Navy would not say. Aviation gossip believes that the Skyrocket reached an altitude of more than 77,000 ft. (nearly 15 miles...
Space Travelers. Even if the space travelers survive their first hazards, they will have plenty of other things to worry about. Fog would envelop the cabin after the slightest perspiration on the part of the passengers. Their hair would stand on end, their clothes would balloon away from their bodies, and anything not nailed down would float aimlessly about the ship's interior. The space ship and its passengers would be bombarded by dangerous solar X rays and cosmic rays, would run the risk of colliding with meteorites plunging across the interplanetary course...