Word: ross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marriage Revealed. Nora Kaye (real name: Nora Koreff), 38, American Ballet Theater's dramatic ballerina, who has made modern ballet's earthy heroines her own, brought grace and precision to classical roles as well; and Herbert Ross, 33, choreographer of sex-swept ballets (Tristan, Metamorphoses) and nightclub acts; she for the third time (No. 2: Violinist Isaac Stern), he for the first; in Majorca, Spain...
When the sun set, the balloon cooled and dropped to 68,000 ft. Commander Ross dumped 300 lbs. of "sunset ballast" (mostly steel shot) to boost it up again. Though the gondola was insulated, it soon grew deathly cold. Both men shivered so hard that they literally shook the whole gondola. When Venus finally rose at 3:30 a.m., Moore started to turn the telescope toward it. But whenever the men moved, the gondola corkscrewed and rotated, vibrating all the time from their shivering. "It was very hard to point in a given direction," says Moore. "It showed that Newton...
...sheltered valley in the wooded hills outside Rapid City, S. Dak. Climbing slowly into the far blue sky, it gradually expanded to its full 172-ft. diameter. Huddled in the trim, 7-ft. pressurized spherical gondola that dangled beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look at Venus clear of most of the earth's muffling...
...parachute. A gusty wind caught the parachute, dragged the gondola across pastures and through fences for half a mile before marines following in helicopters caught it and cut it loose. Bruised and shaken, the scientists climbed out. The gondola was a battered wreck (see cut). Moore could walk, but Ross was so badly shaken up that one of the tracking helicopters took him to an Air Force hospital near Salina...
Born. To Joan Caulfield, 36. long-legged blonde cinemactress (Dear Ruth) and sometime TV star (My Favorite Husband), who seven months ago divorced Hollywood Producer Frank Ross. 55 : their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Kevin Ross. Weight...