Word: bloemfontein
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...Rand. At noon, Swiss Engineer René Comte folded his wiry frame into the cramped, rubber-cushioned cockpit of his sleek Moswey (Buzzard) IV glider, fitted the bubble canopy in place and took off, towed by a sturdy little Tiger-Moth. With good luck he hoped to fly to Bloemfontein, 200 miles away...
...Diamonds. An experienced pilot with six years of soaring in the U.S. and the Swiss Alps behind him, Comte knew how dangerous a thunderhead can be.* But if it boosted him high enough, he could coast down to Bloemfontein. And he would earn two coveted "diamonds" for his gold gliding badge: one for an altitude gain of at least 16,700 ft., the other for a flight of at least 186 miles to a predetermined point...
Comte leveled out on a compass course for Bloemfontein and nosed out of the cloud. He was flying in the open, but all around him were high fog and more clouds. Comte headed into the fog, flew through steady downdrafts until he broke out again at 6,000 ft., 70 miles from where he had started his high, wild ride. For an hour and a half he tried to get around the rain fronts that hemmed him in, but he was finally forced down at Vredefort, 150 miles from his destination...
...first phase of a five-year project to determine the structure of the Milky Way, Bok has been supervising observations at Harvard's Boyden station in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. Operations included the installation last month of the world's largest objective prism for photographing stellar spectra...
Bart J. Bok, Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, has been appointed temporary successor to the late John S. Paraskevoupoulos, as superintendent of the Boyden Station of the Harvard Observatory in Bloemfontein, Africa...