European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 07, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Daily Magazine basically a Home run hitter Maxie Anderson right with wife son toasting end of transcontinental balloon flight in May. By Anna Quindlen new York times Maxim. L. Anderson is the kind of Niu who likes bests and biggest and firsts his childhood hero was Charles Lindbergh. Begot his Pilot s License when he was j5 belying about his age and when he was not quite 30 he became president of his own mining Corpora two years ago with two other men he made the first balloon crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. To me. It s a Way of entering history he once said of his desire to make that dangerous and draining trip. And so on May 12, when he completed the first nonstop balloon flight across North America his family was relieved and his friends were elated but no one was much surprised. He s always very confident that everything will be just Fine his Stepmother Marie Anderson said after Anderson and his 23-year-old son Kris touched Down in i astern Canada. I Don t know Why he docs the things he docs. I guess it s because no one s Ever done them it seems that Anderson at the age of 45, lives life As a series of challenges from a Tough game of to the expansion of his Albuquerque mining company. Ranchers a Cpl oration and development corp., from a Small Copper company to a publicly owned corporation with interests in uranium Gold and Silver. Anderson made his trans Atlantic flight Only a year after an abortive and nearly deadly try in which ins balloon was brought Down Over Iceland in ice storms and Whirlpool winds. Despite the problems with this most recent flight an Derson was clearly elated. I think it tests your Jim Mitchell Long a Friend of Anderson s and spokes Man for the ground Crew monitoring the flight said magic is basically a Home run hitter. He s not the kind of Guy who s interested in a lot of fuzzy detail. He liked to come up with a big idea and then do it and find someone to help him achieve Maxiel Roy Anderson started accomplishing things car Teilh Vlf Reliance that Friend a stemmed from i parents i
