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...eleven women ordained are all deacons, most of them seminary graduates, whose backgrounds vary widely. The oldest, Jeannette Piccard, 79, piloted many of the stratospheric flights of her late husband, Balloonist Jean Piccard. Marie Moorefield, 30, a graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School and a chaplain trainee at Topeka State Hospital in Kansas, grew up as a Southern Baptist and became an Episcopalian just five years ago. Nancy Hatch Wittig, 28, who is slated to take up duties at a Morristown, N.J., parish this month, is married to a Methodist pastor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Women's Rebellion | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...Seasoned balloonists are always prepared for emergency landings and generally travel with an extra bottle of wine or a six-pack to placate property owners who object to having a giant bag of hot air settle on their land. Farmers are the most difficult to handle, explains Balloonist Alice Megaro, because "pigs and horses get very upset-though cows couldn't care less." A few find it cheerful to carry a supply of marijuana. Noted one aeronaut as he floated placidly above Albuquerque: "At this altitude, you only need half a joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: A Ballooning Fad | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...mother neglects him for her lovers, so he attaches himself emotionally to a nanny and an eccentric uncle. The uncle, famous as an explorer and balloonist, fills little Balthazar's head with ideas that later crop up inappropriately in moments of crisis. For example, Balthazar is found drunkenly lost in a garden and is arrested for rape. He recalls Uncle's advice: "About the routes to follow through life. Lighthearted on the boulevard, gay in the cafe, a good shot at the shoot. A flower delivered each morning to the door for the buttonhole. Put a smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seduced and Abandoned | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...show and underground movies. The next night, they never went to bed at all. With the morning came a "Sun Dance." The musicians played drums, chimes, tom-toms, anything at all, while the audience hopped around in the mire chanting, "Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun!" When the sun obliged, a balloonist named Mark Semich took off in a huge red, white and blue hot-air balloon and rode the wind over the hills. That was supposed to be the lighter-than-air part of the festival, but Semich need not have gone to the trouble: many of the youngsters were already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Up at Betty's Meadow | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...danger in launching a trial bal loon is that the balloonist may get caught up in the mooring cables and carried aloft. Just that sort of aerial accident befell Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and his Bulgarian allies last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Barraged Balloon | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

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