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Then, at a year-end meeting of the nation's Governors at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the talk that the President might step aside took on an uncomfortably bipartisan ring. A cloud of astonishingly bitter anti-Johnson sentiments arose from the 18 Democratic chief executives present. Blaming Johnson for defeats in November, the Governors castigated him for pressing certain unpopular and unwanted Great Society programs on the public, for displaying an insulting lack of interest in local campaigns and for letting the National Democratic Committee disintegrate into a useless organization. "Some of the people," said Illinois Governor Otto...
...pollutants that New York City alone spews into the air each day, were nowhere to be found. By Thanksgiving, despite the holiday inactivity, New York's pollution reached five times its normal level of noxious carbon monoxide from cars, soot and fly ash from chimneys and potentially deadly sulphur dioxide from soft fuel oil and coal fires...
Strong Attraction. Unable to reach the sulphur atoms to which they are strongly attracted, the sodium atoms each give up an electron to become sodium ions that are able to pass through the ceramic. The extra electrons, having no other way to rejoin the ions, flow through an external circuit that carries them to the sulphur electrode. That electron flow is an electric current...
Another two years of development will be required, Ford estimates, to produce sodium-sulphur batteries large enough to power even the smallest compact cars. Such batteries would weigh about 300 lbs., produce about 10 kw. of power, and store 15 times as much energy as lead-acid batteries. Equipped with the new batteries, two prototype electric cars that Ford is now building in England are designed to travel 150 miles at 40 m.p.h. They will weigh 1,100 lbs. and carry two adults and two children. Because electric cars require no transmission, radiator, fuel tank, carburetor, fuel pump, exhaust pipe...
Shorter Range. There are still problems to be solved, however, before the new electrics take to the streets. Ford's battery must be heated to about 500° F. to keep its sodium and sulphur electrodes in liquid form, a temperature the company believes can be maintained by effective insulation of battery cells and by frequent charging. Care must also be taken that the battery's sodium does not come into contact with water; the combination produces highly inflammable hydrogen...