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When, about half an hour after launch, HEAO-2 successfully deployed its power-supplying solar panels and separated from its boosters, those listening at HSCFA burst into applause and celebrated with quiche, Chablis and pretzels, as a champagne cork popped across the room...
...Wynne Jones Cork...
Kenneth Russell Cork, newly elected Lord Mayor of the City of London: "I think the way the British survive in the circumstances in which they are forced to live is unbelievable and marvelous, and I propose to go around telling people...
With elephantine dignity, the helium-filled balloon finally landed in a wheatfield in the village of Miserey, 50 miles west of Paris. By then, hundreds of cars had roared onto the scene, and villagers were sprinting to welcome the trio of adventurers. As they arrived, the Americans popped the cork from a bottle of champagne and began toasting their feat and each other. Ben Abruzzo, 48, Max Anderson, 44, and Larry Newman, 31, all from Albuquerque, had just completed a historic first crossing of the Atlantic by balloon, making the 3,100-mile trip from Presque Isle, Me., to Miserey...
...other big union contracts expiring this year, but several important ones come up for renewal in 1979. Among them are the United Auto Workers (with 800,000 members), the Teamsters (900,000 members), the International Union of Electrical Workers (200,000 members), and some 80,000 rubber, cork, linoleum and plastic workers. These unions have three-year contracts that now provide an average of 10% in annual pay increases, and White House officials hope to see the yearly raises cut to perhaps 7%. The Administration will have little hope of success with next year's heavy bargaining calendar...