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...John Cloud. Reported by Margaret Carlson and John F. Dickerson/Washington
President Lyndon Johnson's infamous daisy ad, in which a cute little girl pulled petals off a flower until the eruption of a mushroom cloud broke her reverie, was only one example. Fact magazine came out with a 64-page "psychological study," purportedly a survey of professional shrinks, that showed Goldwater was "psychologically unfit" to be President. The candidate's slogan, "In your heart, you know he's right," was transformed into a snicker: "In your guts, you know he's nuts...
...giant: a big, gaseous sphere more than twice as massive as Jupiter and some 450 light-years from Earth. Susan Terebey, an astronomer at the Extrasolar Research Corp. in Pasadena, Calif., discovered it quite by accident while studying a cloud of gas in the constellation Taurus where a lot of stars are being born. When Terebey and her colleagues looked closely at one double-star system, they noticed a long wisp of gas trailing off into space, and at the end of the wisp, a tiny dot of light...
...response was seen as an opening in themurky cloud of Chinese politics characterized bysubtlety and finesse...
...establishment Republicans during the bruising 1964 Republican National Convention. "Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Democrats coupled that comment with Goldwater's hawkishness on Vietnam and used it to bury him in the ensuing campaign (remember the camapaign commercial with the daisy girl and the mushroom cloud?), but it was the soul of the Goldwater psyche: know your philosophy, stick to it, and never hesitate to speak your mind...