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...going dandily-the boys are $18,000 ahead-but the admiral (Dean Jagger) has noticed signals flashing from MAX's ship and concludes from the Morse that the Russians are attacking. Whereupon: somebody drinks a quart of bourbon and walks a window ledge. Somebody says, "Follow that gondola." The Russian consul pounds a table with his shoe. Somebody falls into a canal. Somebody proposes marriage. Somebody eats a mothball...
Checkout & Checkup. Superintendent of Schools John J. Theobald, on a six-week Ford Foundation tour of European schools, hurriedly beached his gondola in Venice after a summons by Wagner, returned to send a 35-page questionnaire to all 860 principals, asking for itemization of urgent repairs. No fewer than 845 replied. Among their beefs...
...helicopter was not without its danger. Earlier in the week, two Navy free balloonists, Commander Malcolm Ross and Lieut. Commander Victor Prather Jr., made a record flight (21.5 mi.) off the U.S.S. Antietam in the Gulf of Mexico, were picked up by a helicopter shortly after their gondola landed in the water. Commander Ross rode a horsecollar sling to safety. Commander Prather, a Navy medical officer on his third balloon ascent, fell from the sling as he was rising to ward the hovering chopper. Dragged under by the weight of his pressure suit, he died soon after a frogman hauled...
...ground crew filled his 400-ft. balloon with helium. Kittinger climbed awkwardly into the open gondola...
...ground (102,800 ft. above sea level), higher than any human being had ever soared before in nonpowered flight. Shortly after 7 a.m., Kittinger ticked off his go-second countdown in radio communication with the ground. Then he "asked the Lord for help," flopped over the side of the gondola, and began his long fall - nearly 20 miles...