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...there was half the fun for Donald Placard, 37, and Paul E. Yost, 39, both of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Engaged in ballyhoo for a French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed to the manner born. Said he: "It was a perfect trip...
Kerr reiterated a concern voiced last night that overly-aggressive egalitarian impulses might channel federal funds away from the large universities that have been getting most of it. "How may the contributions of the elite be made clear to the egalitarians; how may an aristocracy of intellect justify itself to a democracy of the common man?" he asked...
Potential Unlimited. For hours the scientists on Mount Wachusett declaimed joyfully over the remarkable beam. Next they turned on a TV receiver, tuned in a Boston channel and retransmitted the picture to the laboratory by infra-red rays. The results were more than satisfactory...
...turn of the century, Houston was an unpromising backlands town. Then, in 1915, after the ship channel was dredged, the Port of Houston was opened, and the city became a busy cotton and lumber center. It now ranks as the third largest port in the U.S. (behind New York and New Orleans). In the 1920s, oil discoveries near by set off an oil boom that has never ended. When the U.S. war machine needed rubber during World War II. Houston turned to the area's oil, salt and sulphur resources and built massive petrochemical plants to produce synthetics...
...Audilog-Recordimeter family has a more challenging role to play. Planted in some 12,000 homes, the Recordimeter, a small, clocklike instrument, tots up the number of hours the radio or television set is operating. But it cannot tell what channel or station the set is tuned to. Every half hour, if the set is on, the Recordimeter briskly rouses the absorbed or snoring viewer by flashing a white light behind the picture tube. Radio listeners are alerted by a buzzer. At this signal, the viewer is supposed to pick up his Audilog, a soft-backed book with a page...