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...blue yonder. Balloons were the oldest airships, in fact and fantasy: Oz journeyed over the rainbow in a bag of green silk, and Phileas Fogg embarked on his 80-day voyage around the world dangling from a sphere of hot air. Today the sport of ballooning is enjoying a buoyant renaissance. Rotund flying machines with names like The Artful Dodger, Dante and Pollution Solution hover over golf courses and horse pastures, lifting the spirit and ornamenting the air-bright Christmas balls in the summer...
...Paul Taylor Dance Company has never lacked spirit. Far from it. But last week as the 13-member troupe opened its fourth summer season at Lake Placid, N.Y., its mood seemed more buoyant and carefree than ever before. On the stage of the Adirondack resort's Center for Music, Drama and Art, there were the usual sprints, baseball slides and staggers. A woman flew through the air and, miraculously, a man appeared out of nowhere to catch her. Four men in dinner jackets pranced madly around like stallions crashing the Gong Show. Dancers dove to the floor and scrambled...
Most thoughtful Americans - particularly those old enough to have seen the nation at its best - are likely to agree. That adviser to many Presidents, Lawyer Clark Clifford, does. "I don't think there's been any radical change in the American character," he says. And ever buoyant Hubert Humphrey, mulling the Marshall Plan days last week, ventured a feeling that seems typical in Washington: "I think we would do it over again - if the same circumstances existed...
...Orleans housewife, began getting up at 5 a.m. to jog with her husband. "The first two weeks, my body thought I was going to die and my mind was convinced. I didn't want to do it. I hated it." Now, she says, she feels buoyant after her mile-and-a-half run, and the feeling lasts for most of the day. 'Tm pleased with myself...
Carter appeared buoyant after returning to Winfield House from the dinner. "I could see a great confidence among the leaders about the future of democratic society," he told newsmen. The President even seemed a bit awed by the company he was keeping-a world away from Plains, Ga. Said he: "I was impressed with the great experience that the other leaders have in economics, which I didn't have." Could it be that he, of all people, had an inferiority complex? Confessed Carter: "Well, I do-on economics...