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Since Count Bethlen himself recently intimated that a royal election might be expected soon, his remarks of last week probably meant that the Allied Powers have quietly but firmly informed the Prime Minister that he must deflate his original trial balloon. On Nov. 10, 1921 the Hungarian Government was obliged to assure the Allied Conference of Ambassadors in Paris that no Habsburg would be placed on the Hungarian Throne. The nation, now a "Kingless Kingdom," is technically free to elect anyone not a Habsburg to be King...
...dozens of hawkers with feathers and souvenirs nobody ever seems to buy, it reaches its high point, and then at the game it is released. It may go off with a loud bang or subside with a melancholy "whoosh!" depending on the circumstances, but in any case the balloon is empty until the next game comes around...
...ended his trip, 13 miles less than the distance to Kenbridge, Va., where Capt. Edmund W. E. Kepner of the U. S. Army landed his bubble. Capt. Kepner was unofficially adjudged, last week, to have brought the U. S. its third consecutive victory in the James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race, assuring permanent possession of the trophy...
...Free balloon: An aerostat without a propelling system whose ascent and descent may be controlled by use of ballast or with a loss of the contained gas, whose direction is determined by wind...
...country and into BERLIN in hard, square letters. It is 5 a. m. A sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open. The tempo increases. People thicken the streets and the subways. It is 8 a. m. A hand seizes an electric switch. Machinery gleams in a maddening rhythm. White-hot balls become bottles. Typewriter keys dance. Faster and faster until noon. A lull...