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High Noon on High Street, the press and TV called it. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan at rival rallies just five blocks from each other along a main drag of Columbus. Balloons, bands, banners and high-flown oratory. A dress rehearsal for the fall campaign and an invitation to pundits to read large significance into which candidate's crowd was bigger, which more enthusiastic...
...last week, was by his own count only four delegates short of the 1,666 needed to renominate him at the Democratic Convention in New York City in August. So his strategists tried to upstage a long-scheduled Reagan rally on the steps of the Ohio state capitol in Columbus by having the President address a gathering in the plaza in front of the nearby Nationwide Life Insurance building...
...contest predictably turned into a duel of advancemen. Carter's aides drafted volunteers to drive free shuttle buses to the rally site from around the city, and they blanketed Columbus with flyers reading: COME, SEE, HEAR THE PRESIDENT. They won, Democrats said, since they turned out a crowd of about 7,000, a bit bigger than Reagan's. The Ohioans gave the shirtsleeved President a warm ovation as he stepped into bright sunshine. Carter tested out some themes that he will use in the fall campaign. He asserted that his Administration is "turning the tide" on the nation...
Among the Democrats there is still a little passion left. As Carter and Reagan were talking past each other in Columbus, Ted Kennedy was in Cleveland issuing a wan challenge to Carter to debate him before the convention. If Carter would do so, Kennedy said, he would release his delegates and ask Carter to do the same, to produce a truly open convention. The chances of that happening, as Kennedy well knows, are about equal to the odds that a heavy snowfall will envelop Madison Square Garden when the Democrats meet on Aug. 11. Carter has agreed to debate Reagan...
...orbit far from any living thing, midway between the earth's own path around the sun and that of the neighboring planet Venus. Left there, say Claude Priest and Robert Nixon of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Eric Rice of the Battelle Laboratories in Columbus, it would never come closer to the earth than 22.5 million km (14 million miles). The scheme would also be cheaper than sending the waste into the sun. Best of all, say the engineers, the garbage would remain locked in its orbit for at least a million years...