it was captain orval anderson, major william kepner, and captain albert stevens. and what happened was they got into the gondola and they went up and they hit about 60,000 feet. and they think the friction between the metal and the canvas of the balloon ignited the hydrogen that was inside the balloon. and so, the balloon failed. it busted up completely. and they fell into a freefall. they started exiting the gondola. you know, they had parachutes. the first man got out fine. the second man got stuck in the gondola itself. the first man -- we don't who was first and who was second and who was third. but the first man got out. he had to kick the second man out of the gondola to get him free. major kepner, who we know was actually last, he got out of the gondola at about 500 feet above the ground. so, the second flight happened in 1935. the national geographic and u.s. army air corps did change how the balloon was created. what they did was they actually used helium instead of hydrogen. and that allowed the balloon to not ignite, which is fabulous for the people in

richard kepner. hoffman said, the only alliance i will make with women's liberation is in bed. th lawrence wrote, madness whittling to accept women as an equal as a man in skirts. as an angel, a devil, a baby face, a machine. an instrument, a bosom, a womb, a pair of legs, a servant, and encyclopedia, an ideal, and obscenity. the only thing he will not accept her as, is a human being. a real human being in the female sex. women are like elephants, they are nice to look at but i would not want to own one. lyn: here today is a freelance writer, cathy, and sharon, who was in the piece. she is a senior at the university of michigan. kathy, what did you think about that piece. i was surprised it was so bad. cathy: i would be wrong to say if i enjoyed it. constantly, showing women as servants and some sort of abject to a man, actually does deprive a woman of her own individuality, the fact that she is a human being in the first place. lyn: it was in so many words that people were saying, perhaps people und