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...movable "scan platform," which acts as an aiming mechanism for the narrow-and wide-angle cameras as well as several other optical instruments, had slowed, then stuck. The platform could swing up and down but not sideways, leaving Voyager 2's cameras looking out into the dark void of space...
...Reagan Administration, which is already eliminating existing job-training programs like the much maligned Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), is not likely to help fill the void with yet another federally financed jobs effort. Nor does Congress seem disposed to help. Says Indiana Republican Dan Quayle, chairman of a Senate subcommittee on employment and productivity: "The more that Government gets involved in training, the worse the problem gets...
...chiefly for recreation. Few dancers will snort coke before a performance; it throws off their precise mind-body coordination. Few football players toot before the big game; those who use drugs might seek the longer-lasting boost of amphetamines, or "speed." Instead, coke fuels the victory parties, fills the void when the applause is over, coaxes away inhibitions. The man in the moon sniffing coke from a spoon: under that tableau at New York City's Studio 54, trend-setters used to disco all night...
True fans tend to be both disgusted and bereft at their sudden cultural deprivation. Sportswriter Maury Allen of the New York Post says sadly: "There's a tremendous emptiness without baseball. Its absence creates a big void, and nothing, I mean nothing, can replace it." Americans are trying, of course. Former Texas Congressman Bob Casey, an Astros fan, is using his baseball time to burrow into a novel the size of a steamer trunk, Shogun. What are the stats on a samurai? Attorney Jim Murphy, who normally attends about 75% of Houston's home games, has found...
...Georgi Grechko took a "space walk" outside the ship to look for some suspected damage, he suddenly saw his companion, Yuri Romanenko, drifting by. Romanenko, untethered to the spacecraft, had accidentally floated out of the cabin. Grechko caught Romanenko just as he was about to spin off into the void. On another flight, cosmonauts complained of repeated headaches. It turned out carbon dioxide was building up to dangerous levels in the cabin. The problem was solved by changing the air purifiers more often...