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...sense, the trip might have been more important in terms of Jimmy Carter's on-the-job education than in terms of concrete accomplishments. Reported TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud: "Carter cannot help being changed by his experiences abroad. He has seen the poverty of India, the grimness of Poland, the civilized beauty of France. Conversations with the likes of Prime Minister Desai of India and President Giscard of France will enhance his sophistication in foreign affairs. People were interested in Carter, seemed to like him and respect him. He did not excite them or move them. Yet he seemed...
Although the President's advisers do not expect the trip to produce much immediately in terms of tangible results, TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, who accompanied Carter abroad, reports: "The trip could create a new mood in one country, a new understanding in another, a little more friendship here, a little less hostility there, a greater chance for long-range solutions to some difficult problems, a smaller chance for grave miscalculations of someone else's intentions...
...energy policy, stopping the drain of Social Security funds and reforming the tax and welfare systems had been ignored or put off, largely because nobody had solutions that seemed workable or politically feasible. Like a quarterback who prefers the long bomb to the drudgery of three yards and a cloud of dust, the President threw a lot of comprehensive programs at Congress. Often his timing was poor, his leadership inadequate, his grasp of the politics shaky. But unquestionably Carter has made gains along with his celebrated setbacks...
...cosmic rays act like cue balls in a kind of nuclear billiard game. When they strike and shatter atoms in the upper atmosphere, they produce a shower of subatomic bits of matter moving at great speed. When these so-called "secondary cosmic rays" collide with atoms in a cloud, they knock electrons from them. Accelerated in the cloud's electric field, these electrons avalanche toward the bottom of the cloud and pile up there...
What triggers the bolt, says Follin, are particles in the secondary cosmic showers called muons, which increase the charge with fresh electron avalanches. Finally, electrons burst from the cloud along a path of ionized (electrically charged) air. As other muons intercept the path at different angles, forming new trails, the electrons follow a jagged, steplike route to the ground...