Word: balloonists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother neglects him for her lovers, so he attaches himself emotionally to a nanny and an eccentric uncle. The uncle, famous as an explorer and balloonist, fills little Balthazar's head with ideas that later crop up inappropriately in moments of crisis. For example, Balthazar is found drunkenly lost in a garden and is arrested for rape. He recalls Uncle's advice: "About the routes to follow through life. Lighthearted on the boulevard, gay in the cafe, a good shot at the shoot. A flower delivered each morning to the door for the buttonhole. Put a smile...
...show and underground movies. The next night, they never went to bed at all. With the morning came a "Sun Dance." The musicians played drums, chimes, tom-toms, anything at all, while the audience hopped around in the mire chanting, "Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun!" When the sun obliged, a balloonist named Mark Semich took off in a huge red, white and blue hot-air balloon and rode the wind over the hills. That was supposed to be the lighter-than-air part of the festival, but Semich need not have gone to the trouble: many of the youngsters were already...
...danger in launching a trial bal loon is that the balloonist may get caught up in the mooring cables and carried aloft. Just that sort of aerial accident befell Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and his Bulgarian allies last week...
...Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Engaged in ballyhoo for a French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed to the manner born. Said he: "It was a perfect trip...
Died. Jean Felix Piccard, 79, bushy-haired cosmic ray scientist and pioneer high-altitude balloonist, whose 1934 ascent to 57,579 ft. broke the record set by his late twin brother Auguste (a deep-sea explorer as well) and brought back data that helped confirm the increase of cosmic rays at higher altitudes; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...