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Every week from now until election, TIME will carry the news of the campaign, describing and examining the candidates, appraising and analyzing the issues, and chronicling the thrust and counterthrust between the two great parties-missing neither the fun nor the significance of that fascinating show and key world event that comes every four years in the contest for the U.S. presidency...
...metal casing before all its fuel is consumed, causing a disastrous blowout. To eliminate such a mishap, each booster is taken to a fenced-off area blazoned with signs warning against radiation. There it is wrapped in X-ray film, and a speck of fiercely radioactive cobalt 60 is thrust into its cavity. When the films are developed, they show up any air bubbles...
...desert, but it still reflects the basic simplicity that is solid fuel's chief advantage over liquid. The liquid-fuel rocket engines that push the Thor and Atlas must be static-tested with their flames shooting downward, which requires massive, well-anchored test stands to resist the upward thrust. Their liquid fuel and oxidizer call for pumps, tanks, valves and tubing. Instruments watch every part of their twisted intestinal tract and report to a thick-walled blockhouse protected from blast and flame. A long countdown is required to make sure that every small detail is in working order...
...hardly more than nicks in the rocky hillsides. They need no elaborate structures or tubing because a solid-fuel booster is little more than a fat, blunt-nosed casing for the fuel it encloses. It lies on its side in a heavy steel cradle and pokes its enormous thrust against a vertical rock face sheathed with concrete. Instruments record vibrations, temperatures and the stress in its metal skin, but human watchers do not shelter in a blockhouse. They watch the tests from open hillsides. "Distance is cheaper," they say, "than concrete and periscopes...
When H. E. was twelve, his mother thrust his baby sister's warm, wet diaper in his face. This, together with mother's delight in making water on her hand because it "was good for the skin," gave H. E. a perverse and lifelong fascination with performing or watching micturition. When he married at the age of 32, he made his wife submit to the following pact: separate lodgings, no children, no mutual economic support, lengthy separations, no vows of lifelong fidelity. When his wife embarked on a series of Lesbian affairs, H. E. imperturbably gave his blessing...