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Anderson, a native of Spokane, says he has always had a fascination for balloons, but in the wheatlands of eastern Washington balloon flying was hardly the rage. He studied economics and then political science, but the science bug bit him, and before long he was off to pursue a career in atmospheric chemistry...
...efforts to learn the chemical compositions of the stratosphere. Anderson has become the the first person ever to actually conduct experiments in the mysterious region. After constructing highly sensitive equipment at his Oxford St. lab, he and his crew travel down the National Scienific Balloon Facility in the heart of the cowfields of Palestine, Texas. There they carefully assemble and load up unmanned balloons--which when inflated reach the the same height as Boston's John Hancock tower--with equipment that will measure the gas composition of the stratosphere...
...remedy the problem, Anderson devised the "reel-up, reel-down" technique, whereby his instruments are hung over the side of the balloon and reeled up and down through the stratosphere as needed. The device not only allows his experiments to be repeated, says Anderson, but it permits numerous readings at various altitudes...
...gigantic yo-yo consists of a platform weighing more than a ton and hanging under the side of the balloon, an eight-mile cable and a 130-pound "monkey...
...early burst won the lead, and Lewis' 8.94 split topped off the first world record of the Olympic track meet: 37.83. Lewis' sister Carol, who had failed to make the finals in the women's long jump, greeted him with a bouquet and a heart-shaped balloon-hearts and flowers. "This has been the time of my life," he said. "I'm tired emotionally and physically. The world record lifts me up." He planned to celebrate by jumping fully clothed into a swimming pool...