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...soon as the hurricane's calm blue eye takes shape, the Weather Bureau plans to drop a balloon inside it. Equipped with automatic instruments to keep it at a constant level, it will float serenely in the heart of the storm, reporting its position by radio and tracking the hurricane...
...music is Hindemith at his very best, reaching great emotional depth in the last act. The score does not compromise; it is a far cry from a Puccini or a Menotti opera. But the vocal lines float like ships on the great tidal wave of the orchestra, and, as the scenes go by, the music becomes more lyrical until at the end no one notices that the style is difficult and unfamiliar; the drama and the music have become a single experience in the listener's mind. Mathis der Maler is one of the most moving works of 20th century...
Each balloon also carries 350 lbs. of iron shot for ballast. The balloon is designed to float at the altitude (about 30,000 ft.) where air pressure is 300 millibars. When it loses buoyancy as helium escapes, an automatic device dumps a little ballast and keeps it from descending. When all the ballast is gone, the balloon eventually sinks, and another automatic device cuts the instrument gondola free and lowers it to earth on a parachute. Instructions on the gondola urge finders to send it to the Navy's research laboratory, but even if the instruments are not recovered...
Like organic spongy life of the sea or the weird shapes that bubble and float before our half-closed eyes in bright sunlight, the forms of Joan Miro drift across his canvasses. For their simplicity, the crescents, spots and silhouettes have been called no form at all but only elements--embryos of form like "graffati that children scratch on walls" or that "prehistoric man engraved in caves...
...scramble got even worse when Ford filed a preliminary registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The statement revealed that the Ford Foundation will float the biggest common-stock offering in U.S. history: * 10.2 million shares, instead of the 6,900,000 originally planned. Estimated maximum market value: $765 million. For the first time in its 52-year life, Ford also revealed the innermost secrets of the company...