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That featherbedded gondola looked cool, clean and comfortable to me. Couldn't help thinking that 37,000 sanitary engineers could be used to clean those trains allotted to nonbovine passengers east of the Mississippi River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 1963 | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...Paul E. Yost, 39, both of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Engaged in ballyhoo for a French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed to the manner born. Said he: "It was a perfect trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 26, 1963 | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...JOHNSON'S WAX PAVILION is basically a 600-seat theater in a disklike gondola suspended 24 ft. off the ground from six vaulting columns. The theater will be reached by a ramp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fair: Progress Report | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...terre is a good example of style in Venice. The countess usually spends about a fortnight there in June; then off to Rome and other In spots until September, when Venice is Right again, for a while. Tethered outside when she is in residence is her silver-trimmed gondola, and four luxuriously appointed motorboats. The artist who designed the villa's furniture was paid an extra sum, equal to the royalties he would get for a given number of years from selling the designs commercially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: Open End | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

Heineman's new expressway is the Chicago River, which passes within half a block of the station. Commandeering a pair of sightseeing cruisers, the Wendella and the Sunliner, Heineman last week launched a diesel-powered gondola service which takes commuters to North Michigan Boulevard in seven minutes. The cruisers run every 15 minutes during rush hours, operate on hourly schedules the rest of the day, charge 25? a trip-about one-third the fare in a taxi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Getting There Is Half the Fun | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

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