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...from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, Echo II rocketed into a polar orbit 642 to 816 miles above the earth. As it sped toward Madagascar about an hour after launch, the canister popped open, releasing the sturdy skin of the balloon, composed of two layers of aluminum foil laminated to a sheet of plastic. The warm rays of the sun began to vaporize chemicals inside the satellite, expanding it to its full 135-ft. diameter...
Behind that line stands much more than tobacco. The $8 billion-a-year business affects dozens of manufacturers, 400,000 farmers, and 1,500,000 grocers, druggists and other retailers. It buys one-quarter of the nation's foil, is the third biggest user of cellophane and one of the largest consumers of paper products. Its $250 million-a-year advertising budget helps to support the nation's communications media-newspapers, magazines and, notably, television. Tobacco taxes earn more than $1 billion for the 50 states, more than $2 billion for the Federal Government...
Only Dan Kirsch (foil) and Larry Butler (sabre) won as many as two bouts; Harvard took just one of the nine bouts in the epee...
...really had to know was a little classical music. If the mes sage was preceded by excerpts from Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, it was genuine; if it began with parts of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Georgiev knew the message was a ruse designed to foil would-be counterspies. For a while, Georgiev played Name That Tune like an expert. Then, in September, he was somehow nabbed by Bulgarian police, and his seven-year career as a professional spy was ended...
Meanwhile, the freshmen were having problems of their own, as they fell 18-0 to the Beaver yearlings. Tom Musliser turned in an outstanding performance for the Yardlings, tallying three touches in the foil...