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...impressive. However, it remains to be seen whether he can carry on to raise money for these badly-needed new facilities and still remain as devoted to women's athletics and intramural sports as he appeared to be last week. The temptation to put those priorities on the back burner while trying to raise money from older alumni, whose primary interest is in a big-name intercollegiate program, will be great. We hope Reardon will be able to live up to the high expectations he has set for himself, and remember next year the importance of the commitments...
With the development in the mid-'60s of the modern hot-air balloon, equipped with a Ripstop nylon envelope and a lightweight propane burner, drifting aloft became a relatively simple-and safe-divertissement. In 1963 there were only six hot-air balloons in the U.S. A decade later the number was 300, and today there are nearly 1,000. In this age of Concordes and space shuttles, some 3,000 balloon pilots are licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, and perhaps twice as many friends and relatives serve as nonlicensed crew members...
...hosts are Douglas Economy, 16, one of the youngest pilots licensed by the FAA, his father, and their instructor, Bill Lewis. They aim a battery-powered fan into the limp mouth of their balloon, Fat Albert, breathing life into the sagging nylon skin. Then Lewis ignites the propane burner. With a roar, hot air fills the billowing mushroom, which swells with dignity to its magnificent seven-story height...
Dougie can lift us up with the propane burner or let the hot air escape through a vent to ease us down, but our horizontal movement is entirely dependent upon the vagaries of Aeolus. "That is part of ballooning's magic," says Dougie. "You never know what your destination will be. Your fate is in the winds...
...memo that has been quoted ever since. Unable to pin down what was wrong, he did what he usually does: he made something up-in this case the word zunch. "Zunch is the magic that stays with the watchers after we are done. Zunch is opening up. Turning the burner on. Going beyond. Isn't that what makes a dancer out of a pedestrian?" And a wizard out of a choreographer...