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...auto strike was scheduled to end this week, but its effects will be felt for months to come. After President Johnson warned that a continuation of the five-week stoppage would "jeopardize the continuous upward thrust of our economy," Walter Reuther finally went into action. He convened the union's General Motors council, won their ratification of the national agreement and scheduled a nationwide membership vote to approve the contract. Local unions that had not yet signed contracts-there were still 33 of them at week's end-could still remain on strike, but Reuther strongly indicated that...
...peacetime, he trained himself for war as a medieval knight training for battle. He was a ferocious competitor in the pentathlon, in which he finished fifth in the 1912 Olympics, and polo, in which he was a seven-goal player. In his last year at West Point, he thrust his head into the line of fire during a sharpshooting exercise. "I just wanted to see how afraid I'd be," he explained, "and to train myself not to be." When war came, Patton's revolutionary theories of seemingly reckless advance ("Let the enemy worry about his flanks") often...
...engine tested in a 30-minute, 3,200-mile flight over the Pacific got its thrust by passing vaporized cesium metal through a hot tungsten filter. This action strips electrons from the cesium, speeds the positively charged ions out the rear of the engine. The great advantage of this process is that it requires remarkably little fuel-only one-tenth of that for a conventional chemical rocket. Even the smallest ion engine could keep a satellite on its right course for more than ten years by giving it gradual nudges. On a 300-day trip to Mars, a full-scale...
...Onto the rust-colored track at Tokyo's National Stadium trotted Yoshinori Sakai, a 19-year-old student who was born near Hiroshima just hours after the atomic bomb fell on the city. Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, Sakai bounded up a flight of 179 steps, thrust it into a cauldron of oil. Flames leapt up, and halfway around the world, in Manhattan and Mexico City, sports fans watched the dramatic moment on TV-relayed with marvelous clarity by the satellite Syncom III, orbiting 22,000 miles above the International Dateline. The XVIII Olympiad had begun...
...greater era. "Every new war," he wrote in 1945 in The Planetisation of Mankind, "embarked upon by the nations for the purpose of detaching themselves from one another, merely results in their being bound and mingled together in a more inextricable knot. The more we seek to thrust each other away, the more do we interpenetrate...