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...feels her blood turn "as though the moon had swayed it." For all of the characters in Elizabeth Spencer's elegantly written novel, her first in twelve years, the salt line divides past and present, memory and desire, placidity and jeopardy. Crossing it brings everyone into the swirling orbit of the book's protagonist, Arnie Carrington. Arnie, sixtyish, is a former professor of English at an upstate university, a lifelong activist who reigned during the 1960s as a champion of campus protest movements ("Carrington cares!" the students once chanted). He left the university much as his hero Byron...
...proposed space station, occupied by half a dozen men and women at a time, will orbit several hundred miles above the earth. It will open a new world of extraterrestrial opportunity that will include scientific experimentation, zero-g manufacturing, observation of the earth, and even the launching of spacecraft to remote parts of the universe. Reagan's rhetoric was euphoric: "We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful economic and scientific gain...
Preliminary studies agree that the station will have to be freighted piecemeal into orbit inside the space shuttle's big cargo bay. This "building-block approach," as the chief of NASA's Space-Station Task Force, John Hodge, calls it, will take a minimum of five flights. The components will include two or more cylinder-shaped modules, each with the volume of a large recreational vehicle. These will serve as working and living ("habitation modules" in NASAese) quarters for the astronauts. Solar panels will catch sunlight and turn it into electricity. Huge radiators will shed excess heat from...
Indeed, just about the only headline-catching initiative in the State of the Union speech will be a proposal to put into orbit a permanent space station filled by rotating crews of astronauts. Otherwise, said one speech drafter, "this is not going to be a litany of new programs or a listing of everything that's going on department by department. We told the Cabinet to forget it." Instead, a draft that Reagan sent back to his aides last week, after personally rewriting two-thirds of it, stressed his accomplishments and hopes for the future. One aide summarized...
...pulled the Democratic Party to the left: to Mc-Govern in 1972, and to an abiding distrust of American power and intentions ever since. A countervailing revulsion with growing American weakness-for example, economic prostration before OPEC and national humiliation by Iran-helped pull the Republican Party into the orbit of the Reagan right...