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Though a Caltech employee saw the final launching and informed the sheriff, it was too late to prevent the headline-making results. "We succeeded beyond our wildest hopes," said Gould. "We suckered everybody. We could have made the balloons do fantastic things-like zip across the sky-but we preferred to keep the experiment simple...
...Zip my pants...
...intensely nationalistic in financial matters, European governments discourage outsiders from entering their bond markets by imposing coupon taxes ranging up to 25% on alien bond purchases. American bonds, on the other hand, being tax-free and easily transferable, are snapped up in $10,000 and $20,000 lots by zip-lipped Swiss bankers representing unmentioned clients...
...that carries them past a cathode-ray tube. The tube's scanning beam locates the last line of each address, converts it to electrical impulses that are recorded on an electronic version of a scratch pad. They are then read by a computer that recognizes city, state and ZIP code characters by comparing them with 6,000 combinations of standard characters...
...ZIP! went the paper airplanes around the room. It was the 31st-birthday reception of Japan's Crown Princess Michiko, who seemed to be spending most of her time folding missiles for her son Prince Hiro, 5, to buzz the photographers with. The princess expects a second child at the end of November...