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...stood on top of his spaceship's white titanium hull. He touched it with his bulky thermal gloves. He burned around like Buck Rogers propelling himself with his hand-held jet. He floated lazily on his back. He joked and laughed. He gazed down at the earth 103 miles below, spotted the Houston Galveston Bay area where he lives and tried to take a picture of it. Like a gas station attendant, he checked the spacecraft's thrusters, wiped its windshield. Ordered to get back into the capsule, he protested like a scolded kid. "I'm doing...
Troubles & Perquisite. As Roosevelt recovers and tries to learn to walk, a cameraman with a hand-held camera attempts to illustrate the ordeal by walking along the gravel driveway at Hyde Park photographing the ground in jerks, sways and clumsy lurches. Later, when Roosevelt becomes a gubernatorial candidate, the narrator points out that Republicans raised the cripple issue but Al Smith killed it, saying "A Governor does not have to be an acrobat." And what do you suppose leaps to the screen? A whole big top full of circus acrobats who swing and soar and throw triples for what seems...
...author "frightfully good-looking." Since its publication a year ago, it has sold the exceptional total of 110,000 copies, and has won the highbrow Renaudot Prize. It has intense visual strength and might easily be transcribed into a New Wave movie by some current master of the jolting, hand-held camera. Yet it lacks human warmth, and ends as another pale variation of the modish French anti-novel-truly a tale of tedium...
...taking no chances, and last week he was campaigning as though he actually feared defeat. He whirled through five New England states on a prop-stopping speaking trip, and the wild crowds nearly tore him apart. Everywhere he went, he halted his motorcade, made impromptu speeches through a hand-held bullhorn, bounded out of his car to press the outstretched hands of crushing mobs. At Providence, R.I., he embraced ex-Senator Theodore Francis Green, now 97, invited him to spend the night at the White House for the inauguration...
...MICROJETS. For short range targets not more than 100 yards away, tiny rockets called microjets are now being tried. No bigger than bullets, they are filled with a quick-burning propellant and launched in quick succession from a thin-walled, hand-held tube. Their chief advantages are light weight and silence. They operate not with a bang but a hiss...