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...Orbited Echo I, a thin-skinned, gas-filled balloon 100 ft. in diameter, pioneer of a future globe-girdling network of balloon satellites to be used to bounce com munications signals from one continent to another (see SCIENCE...
...rights, it was time for one great national yawn. The big eye of television was dull and glazed after keeping the U.S. up late through two political conventions. The last balloon had drifted to the floor of convention hall, the last "never before" was but an echo, and the last "man who" sagged into contemplation. But the U.S. was wide-awake. The conventions of 1960 had shaken up the country...
...asset: her beauty - dark-haired, with widely spaced dark-brown eyes and a serene, oval face . . . She seldom wears hats, but when she does she likes them large-brimmed and fem inine, though never fussy. If she has a fashion-signature, it is simplicity." . . . Reminding televiewers that the last echo of rigged TV quiz shows has not yet died away, a Manhattan grand jury called in onetime Quizling Elfrida von Nardroff, 34, winner of $220,500 on NBC's extinct, discredited Twenty One program, to tell what, if anything, she knew about sure-fire answers. As she left...
...last quarter, archery bored her, and in another she played poor tennis: "Tennis! Oh, forty-love! Well, for your information, they are not batting tennis balls at Cape Canaveral." To Charlene, the school's insistence that physical and mental education count equally seemed an echo of the old notion ("back in the days of outdoor privies") that Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. "Live in our world of 1960," she urged as she cited such "notoriously poor athletes" as Edison and Einstein. "This might come as a great shock...
...Clay was not only spinning once again, but to Detroit's shocked surprise, he was doing it for WQTE, a more-filtered-than-thou sort of radio station that had long bragged of its pure air and its superiority to rock-'n'-roll, vulgar whistles and echo chambers...