Word: journey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abating. Last week 18,000 arrived, and there are still some 500 American boats at the Cuban port of Mariel, held there by the Cuban authorities until they decide who should be piled aboard. The overcrowded craft are often ordered to depart at night now, making the 110-mile journey even more dangerous. The estimated death toll of refugees so far: at least 25. "Mother Nature has been kind to these people," said one Coast Guard officer. "Only good weather has prevented a real disaster...
...says, "There is a traditional interest among Saturday Review readers in books, movies, theater, recordings and cultural travel, like the Cannes Film Festival. The magazine has not been talking to those interests." Though proud of Saturday Review's heritage, Weingarten insists he is not embarked on a sentimental journey. Says he: "Magazines have to be run to make money...
...small payload, only the most hazardous fission byproducts could be considered for launch. They would also require almost foolproof packaging-probably a hardened mix of metals and ceramic encased in stainless steel spheres. As a precaution against a crash during lift-off or in the early stages of the journey, the spheres would be carried in an aerodynamically shaped container with heat shielding. That would enable them to survive a fiery plunge back into the atmosphere without spreading radioactive debris round the earth...
...safe distance away, the astronauts would fire the booster, kicking the nuclear package out of earth orbit and hurtling it sunward. The booster would be detached and steered back into the cargo bay for return to earth and reuse on further missions, like the shuttle itself. Meanwhile, after a journey of about 160 days, another rocket in the nuclear waste package would be fired by remote control, this time braking the container and letting it settle into a permanent solar orbit between earth and Venus...
...Their journey repeats the classic American immigrant sagas. To escape the old country (the ration line, the future foreclosed, the totalitarian rant), they climb aboard overcrowded boats and go pitching out across the water to a different life. When they glimpse the new land, they throng to the rails; they peer toward the dock with that vulnerable immigrant look of yearning that everyone carries in memory, like a cracked photograph: the faces at Ellis Island, the Golden Door-or at least the servants' entrance-to the new world and all its redemptions...