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...outer boundary of the solar system and even abetting the efforts of scientists pursuing SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. When Pioneer was launched in March 1972, its primary assignment, ordained by NASA, was to reach the environment of Jupiter. At the time, says physicist James Van Allen, the discoverer of Earth's radiation belt and a principal contributor to Pioneer's achievements, "this objective was regarded as a bold one." While unmanned U.S. and Soviet spacecraft had visited the inner planets, none had flown beyond Mars and braved the asteroid belt to reach Jupiter and the other outer planets...
...Wirth watched Pioneer's data, in the form of multicolored blocks of numbers flashing across a computer screen. To make the best use of the spacecraft's dwindling power, he has shut down all but three of its 11 scientific instruments, and by early next year only one--Van Allen's cosmic ray detector--will be able to function. Citing operational costs and the diminishing scientific return, NASA has ordered Wirth to halt all communications with Pioneer next year on March...
...just about everywhere else. In a shocker, AT&T, the nation's 10th largest company, with estimated 1996 revenues of $51 billion to $52 billion, dialed long distance--to a Midwest commercial printer, of all places--to find John Walter, its new president and heir apparent to CEO Robert Allen, who will retire in 1998, two years early. "When one of the world's largest companies loses its president and can't find anyone inside, what's going on?" asks Sprint CEO William Esrey...
...When Allen Hutchinson dropped out of this race days before the filing deadline, the Missouri G.O.P. appointed Bennett to run. A mother of two, she lost both her father and husband within 10 days during her 1990 city-council campaign: she survived the trauma and won the election. Bennett says her 18 years as a teacher, her time as a single mother and her experience in local government have prepared her for the U.S. House...
...Angeles EDUCATION: Wilberforce U, B.A., 1967; United Theological Seminary, D.Min., 1994 FAMILY: Wife, Elaine; four children RELIGION: African Methodist Episcopal MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Minister POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: 114-16A Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica 11434. Tel.: 718-262-9700 As pastor of the Allen A.M.E. Church, Flake has easily retained his seat in Congress while building a major community center--including a senior-citizen housing complex and a private Christian school--that employs 800 people. In Congress he champions minority concerns and economic development, and his parishioner-constituents will probably return him to Capitol Hill...