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...more time and money to cultivate his soul is out-of-date. Now, "the job is the life. This is what must be made meaningful . . . What happens to people in the course of producing may be far more important than the end product. Materialism is not a satisfactory 'skyhook...
Standard Oil's founder, a good capitalist and good Baptist who took the long-range values for granted, might be somewhat puzzled by all the skyhook talk. John D. Rockefeller Sr. had put the matter more simply when he wrote: I was early taught to work as well as play...
...Mysterious low-energy particles have been detected in the ionosphere, 66 miles above the earth. A seagoing Navy scientific team in the North Atlantic sent up rocket-carrying Skyhook balloons; at 70,000 ft. the rockets, loaded with instruments, were shot another 280,000 ft. higher, where the particles were encountered. The Navy's find supports the results of a similar experiment last year, but the Navy has yet to pin down and identify the nature and origin of the particles...
...ascension, it was alleged, would employ a Navy "skyhook" balloon filled with 40 dollars worth of helium, with 'Poon Ibis Charles C. Osborne '52 scheduled to be borne aloft...
...Skyhook balloons normally reach a height of more than 50 miles, but 'Poonsters last night were apparently unruffled at the prospect of Osborne's elevation. It was reported by one source within the 'Poon that Osborne would be dropped at the last moment and a dummy substituted. Osborne is a noted short-distance swimmer...