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...years or more. Pioneer F will have to survive a hazard never before encountered by a spacecraft: it will have to pass through the asteroid belt, which consists of some 50,000 asteroids that circle the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. If Pioneer runs the rocky gauntlet successfully, the way will be cleared for further explorations of the outer planets by unmanned spacecraft making Grand Tours* later in the decade, as well as future flights by man himself. A serious accident, on the other hand, might well cause space scientists to reconsider their plans...
...worth borrowing and extending to cover such assaults as the Disney scheme to turn California's Mineral King mountain fastness into a tourist development, or the perennial proposal to build a highway through the Grand Canyon. Anyone approaching the national battlefield military park at Gettysburg runs a gauntlet of gaudy billboards, and now Tom Ottenstein, a developer from Silver Spring, Md., is going ahead with plans to build a 300-ft. sightseeing tower on an acre of private land not far from the Gettysburg National Cemetery. It will be topped with a "space capsule" faced in tinted glass...
Thugs and Hoodlums. The eggs began to fly even before the motorcade moved out to run the gauntlet between two walls of unfriendly citizens. Dozens of rocks were thrown, some the size of a potato. They bounced off the President's well-armored car, and they smashed windows in the press and staff buses trailing behind. One Secret Service agent, one newsman and one White House staff girl were injured, none seriously. Nixon's longtime secretary, Rose Mary Woods, who had been along in 1958 when the vice-presidential motorcade was mobbed and stoned in Venezuela, shouted: "Duck...
...lived in a tough neighborhood that was periodically invaded by Oswald Mosley's fascist bullyboys. Pinter remembers that as an adolescent, he had to run a gauntlet of broken milk bottles thrust menacingly at him. Not surprisingly, the boy's imagination was permeated by the Nazi massacre of the Jews. The threatened knock at the door, with the certainty of horrible punishment for an uncommitted crime, was a sound of terror in his mind before he ever recorded it on the stage...
...What a monster of smug, smirking, fatuous arrogance! May he be stripped to his shorts and forced to run the gauntlet down Seventh Avenue, pelted with eggs and tomatoes by mobs of jeering Women's Liberationists...