Word: ross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While a band played and an American Legion color guard clicked to attention, a flag was sent proudly aloft last week in a newly paved Florida plaza named for Betsy Ross, U.S. seamstress and upholsterer.* The ceremony marked the official opening of "Salhaven," a multimillion-dollar retirement community for Betsy Ross's latter-day followers, the Upholsterers International Union...
...diameter, rose without trouble from the same bowl-like depression near Rapid City, S. Dak. that the Army's record-setting flight used in 1935. Far below its partly expanded bag hung a spherical aluminum gondola stuffed with scientific apparatus. Inside were Lieut. Commanders Malcolm D. Ross and Morton L. Lewis, wearing man-from-Mars pressure suits and festooned with instruments to measure their heart action, breathing, etc., and report the readings to escort aircraft and ground radios. The primary purpose of the flight was not to make an altitude record but to study conditions on the fringe...
...balloon rose rapidly, glinting in the sun. At 56,400 ft., Commander Lewis reported that he and Commander Ross were having coffee, a prime necessity of Navy men. Somewhat later he remarked that the sky was clear and dark blue-black. The balloon continued to climb. In two hours and 50 minutes it passed the Army's altitude record (72,395 ft.) and reached...
Everything so far had gone well. Ross and Lewis dropped the balloon intentionally to 75,000 ft. and started to make the observations that were the purpose of the flight. Then the trouble started...
Later in the same period, after Penn had intercepted a Simouran pass at midfield, the Quakers moved in eight plays for a score. The touchdown was a 20-yard pass from Ross to end Dick Schaefer all alone in the end zone. Actually, Ross' bootleg execution fooled the whole defense, allowing Schaefer to get beyond both Simourian and Joslin...