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...apiece, enough for Bell and Macfarquhar to plan a second edition. By 1777, when work started, Smellie had gone off (later to become a boozing buddy of Robert Burns), and the publishers replaced him with James Tytler, a scholar just as whiskyfied and twice as eccentric, being given to balloon ascensions. Editor Tytler stayed on the ground long enough to get out a ten-volume, 8,595-page encyclopedia...
Harry Hoehler, assistant Dean of Freshmen, and Daniel L. Steiner 3L, head proctor of the north end of the Yard, were the only victims of the attempted fun. A balloon filled with milk exploded at their feet as they walked in front of Matthews Hall...
Frondizi soon got clear evidence that diehard Peronistas may confuse amnesty with a license for riot. At a military parade, a segment of the crowd shouted "President by Perón's orders!" and sent up a barrage of balloons bearing colored pictures of Perón and his late wife, Eva. One balloon floated by Frondizi's face and was snared by an aide. All through the afternoon, Peronista demonstrations flared up in central streets, but Frondizi's new police chief sent in cops with tear gas to disperse the mobs. It was an encouraging reminder...
...artful Cosi Fan Tutte (Women Are Like That). The cynical, silly, and charming tale-two gentlemen of Naples undertake to disprove the theory that all women are faithless by pretending to go off to the wars and returning in disguise as two gentlemen from Albania lately landed from a balloon, lay siege to each other's sweethearts, and, to their own discomfiture, succeed-has seldom been more merrily staged. Under the direction of Peter Herman Adler, Mozart's music was kept feather-light and crystal-clean. Soprano Phyllis Curtin and Mezzo Frances Bible were as pretty a brace...
Sphere of Nothing. When the rocket reaches the orbit, the nitrogen inflates the balloon and pops it out of its container. When all the gas has left the capsule, the balloon is erected into a sphere 30 in. in diameter. The pressure inside it (.2 lb.) is enough to stretch the wrinkles out of the aluminum film and make it mirror smooth. After doing this job, the nitrogen escapes into the vacuum outside. O'Sullivan wants to get rid of it because the balloon may be punctured by a meteor, and a jet of gas escaping from it might...