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...that Israel's borders would be respected. "I'd hate to see us blow the present opportunity to move forward," he argued. "Both sides now must prevail in moderation." Chicago's main Jewish newspaper The Sentinel criticized local Jewish leaders for their "verbal lynching" of Percy in "absolute white-hot anger" and warned that eventually Percy's suggestions "would become a fact...
...Lamont are both closing in on that age when reminiscing becomes more than attending the occasional Ivy League alumni gathering. One is 66, the other 72. And, as their initial golden-days forays into reminiscence and self-accounting reveal, Rockefeller's in 72 pages and four days before the white-hot television lights of the Senate Rules Committee, Lamont's in a little-noticed collection of essays entitled Voice in the Wilderness, it's harder than the average communist thinks to bite the trust fund that feeds...
...White-Hot Gas. The Mars expedition would make a twelve-day lunar-landing mission look like a Sunday excursion. If all could be in readiness by 1985, for example, the Mars astronauts would be blasted out of orbit on April 5, when the earth, Venus and Mars will be in ideal positions for the mission. Their craft would swing by Venus on Sept. 10, 1985, getting a valuable gravitational boost that would speed it to Mars by April 10, 1986. The expedition would depart from Mars on May 20 and arrive back in earth orbit...
Propulsion for the Mars craft will come from an engine not yet developed, perhaps the proposed NERVA (for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications). It consists of a small nuclear reactor that heats liquid hydrogen until it is expelled as a jet of white-hot gas. To kick out of earth orbit (which requires much less thrust than an earth launch), the 270-ft.-long ships will fire-and then discard-the two outboard NERVAs strapped to their sides; the main booster, at the center of the engine cluster, will be retained. Then, as the two ships pull away from...
Meanwhile on the left, the Labor opposition led by Harold Wilson dithers irresolutely, divided on economic policy and on Europe. The white-hot Wilson who fronted the technological challenge of his 1964 victory is a gray ash of his former self-and his credibility is as fragile. His is not the Cromwellian voice that might save the workers from the siren calls of industrial and political anarchy. No longer is there that "we are on our way" zest of ten years ago. Barring a hard-to-foresee miracle, there is a long, hot summer ahead for Britain...