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Auguste Piccard, 64, who once set a high-flying record in a balloon (and later promised his anxious wife that he would never balloon again), had to give up his current try at ocean diving. After two weeks of mechanical trouble off the Cape Verde Islands, he sent the 40-ton bathyscaphe down, unmanned, on a test dip of 4,250 feet (deeper than the man-aboard record of 3,028 feet set in 1934 by William Beebe, but far short of the 2½ miles Professor Piccard was hoping for). When the bathyscaphe surfaced, it was caught...
Pranksters purloined the second Wursthaus balloon in less than a month early Saturday evening, but they won't get a chance to have a go at a third...
...much good for commercial use, and has no resale value, so police reason that the large balloon, last seen floating over the local delicatessen, was stolen as a student prank...
Also gone with the balloon was a banner which was suspended about 50 feet below it. In fact, the only thing the pranksters did not take was the crossbar of the sign and a few feet of the extra-strong twine which anchored it about 300 feet...
...Frank N. Cardullo, Wursthaus owner, said yesterday he is willing to let bygones be bygones if the balloon is returned in good condition...