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Bigger towns might consider it a boondoggle or an eyesore. But the depressed West Texas ranching town of Marfa (pop. 2,500) is delighted about the economic benefit of a 240-ft. radar surveillance balloon that the Customs Service has tethered nearby and plans to fly at an altitude of 14,000 ft. One of six in a planned network along the Mexican border, the helium-filled aerostat can spot suspected drug-smuggling planes up to 200 miles away, then flash data to authorities who will try to intercept the aircraft...
INTERNATIONAL BALLOON FESTIVAL. More hot air than any convention on earth. Hundreds of giant rainbow-hued balloons converge on Albuquerque (or just above it) for the largest annual ballooning extravaganza...
November 20: The gridders clinch a tie for the Ivy title with a 45-7 trashing of Yale. A balloon is inflated by MIT students on the field during the game...
Opponents warned that the cost might well balloon to $3 billion, and doubted that Washington would fork over anything like $500 million. (Skinner promised that "the Federal Government is going to help in a very substantial way," but he studiously avoided being pinned down to a figure.) Thus, they insisted, the project would force tax increases that Denver residents could not afford. The two main airlines servicing Denver, United and Continental, point out that Stapleton still has 25 unused gates; some expansion of runway capacity, they argued, was all that was needed. But the vote made it obvious that...
...Linares, wielding a .357-cal. pistol. "I'll only hurt you if you try to plug my baby back in." Linares, 23, and his wife Tamara had come to the Chicago hospital in the middle of the night to visit their 15-month-old son. Since swallowing an uninflated balloon and suffocating at a birthday party last August, little Samuel had been partly brain dead, kept alive by a life-support system...