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Should plans for the space sailer hit a snag, earthlings could still get their first closeup view of Halley's comet in 1986. Another group at J.P.L. is working on the design of a spaceship that would be propelled by an ion engine; a small, continuous amount of thrust would be provided by the engine's ejecting ions produced when a beam of electrons (generated by electric current from solar cells) is sent through vaporized mercury. Such a low-thrust ion engine could, like the sunjammer's sail, maneuver a ship to a rendezvous with the comet...
...Instead of looking like a Green Beret commander, trim and tough, Brando, who was paid $2 million, panted through the paddies like Sidney Greenstreet vainly looking for the way to Rick's Bar. Coppola's solution was to film only Brando's face and hands in closeup and to use a suitably slim, 6-ft. 5-in. double for long shots. Even Coppola's inventiveness had no remedies, however, for the two typhoons that ripped up his sets...
...rejected as too small for heavy equipment; he eventually caught on as assistant to Cecil B. De-Mille. Noted for his constant efforts to achieve realism, Howe once filmed John Garfield's boxing scenes in Body and Soul by donning roller skates and darting around the ring for closeup shots...
...number of groups dedicated to easing the lot of the handicapped, ramps have been built that allow the wheelchair-bound to roll themselves into the base of the memorial, where they can enter the wide doorway of a newly installed elevator, ride up to the rotunda and get a closeup view of Lincoln's statue. That enables the handicapped to surmount what had been for them a barrier to the rotunda, the great apron of stairs that lead to the memorial...
Those children have had plenty of opportunities to view crunches from closeup angles. Replaying highlights of games that viewers had not seen, ABC Monday Night Baseball showed at length the on-field fracas of the Chicago Cubs-San Francisco Giants game nine days after it occurred. Football cheap shots and beanball brawls, hockey fistfights and basketball square-offs - exercises of passion that transgress the rules - are a minor part of any sports event. Yet they are given long and detailed attention, instant and incessant replay...