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Under development by Electro-Optical Systems Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., for the past four years, the ion rocket is likely to prove to be the Mighty Mouse of the space age. On earth it develops no more thrust than several milli-pounds (engineers call it the "milli-mouse burp"), barely enough to lift a one-carat diamond an inch off a desk. But in frictionless, gravity-free space, such burps can propel the biggest payloads. And the ion rocket's assignment is just that: to take over the task of propelling huge space cargoes to the planets and back...
...cannot talk down the forward thrust of Communist aggression," he told the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in Hollywood. "We cannot bluff them down. But we can face them down...
There, the son of a South Dakota druggist toured the university school of pharmacy, donned a white pharmacist's jacket to pose for pictures, and scrawled on a prescription pad thrust into his hand by an autograph-hunting student the words "Vote Democratic...
...duty to a minimum. Jack Valenti, President Johnson's aide, relieves newsmen of one chore by counting the times a Johnson speech is interrupted by applause. There are telephones in the press pool cars-vehicles reserved for a few correspondents chosen to represent the many, which thrust as near the candidate's limousine as safety permits. Speech texts are usually available in advance...
...Tactics. The fact is that the campaign, though it originally gave promise of developing into an exciting confrontation between two sharply differing philosophies, has since degenerated instead into little more than a contest between two sharply differing personalities. There is almost none of the usual election-year exchange of thrust and counterthrust, charge and countercharge over really substantial issues. Instead, there is invective and counter-invective...