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...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, it makes little difference. The balloon will have been tracked all along its flight, and its instruments will have...
Blue for Blondes. Diana is tireless at publicizing Diana. She posed almost nude for a bestselling booklet called Diana Dors in Three D. Clad in a mink bikini, she skimmed down Venice's Grand Canal on the prow of a gondola. Meanwhile, she worked hard to prove herself an expert mimic. She can skillfully play Cockneys, Scotsmen, Irishmen and Americans. Critics like her ("Her main gift is impertinence. Not only does she stimulate the libido, she also transmits charm . . . and is about as neurotic as an ice-cream cornet*"). The public takes...
...subsidized), but tradespeople consider them fine for cashing in on the tourist dollar. This summer 600,000 U.S. visitors are expected in Europe. The more dedicated festivalgoers have written for tickets a year or so in advance, but travel agencies still book a symphony concert as handily as a gondola ride. Tourists who do not know what they ought to like in the way of culture can turn themselves over to one of the new package tours being conducted by professional music guides. They pick up the customer at Idlewild Airport, shuffle him through a pattern of the right sights...
...clustered islets of Murano, a short gondola ride from Venice, master glassblowers have huffed and puffed since the 13th century, producing some of the world's finest glass. For centuries. Murano glassmakers isolated themselves from alien ideas, but lately the masters have been experimenting with a new form-a collaboration between glassblowers and great modern painters...
...Weak and exhausted after nine days jammed in open gondola cars, U.N. prisoners were herded off a prison train, 30 at a time, in Sunchon tunnel on Oct. 20, 1950. Communist soldiers escorted them down the,tracks, told them to hide in an erosion ditch while they waited for food. As soon as the prisoners had relaxed on the ground, the guards opened point-blank fire with burp guns and rifles. U.S. deaths: at least...