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Only two ago, a tidal wave of Vietnamese refugees seemed to have engulfed all of Southeast Asia. Arriving in frail fishing craft in the waters of Thailand, Malaysia and other countries that proved incapable of or unwilling to shelter all of them, they were known as the boat people. They seemed to be the ultimate casualties of the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam. Peasants and fisherfolk, small shopkeepers and traders, as well as former soldiers of Saigon's army, they fled the oppressive Hanoi regime in increasing numbers. Soon the exodus was joined by hundreds of thousands of ethnic...
Hail Columbia, officially designated a Space Transportation System (S.T.S.), and known as the space shuttle or the shuttle orbiter for short. The shuttle, to make it even shorter, is the most powerful and complicated craft ever put together by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Apollo capsules that went to the moon are Model T artifacts in comparison. Columbia, with booster rockets and fuel tank, weighs 2.7 million Ibs.; it is controlled by computers loaded with more than 600,000 lines of exquisitely precise program codes; it has pumps the size of trash cans that can discharge superheated gases...
...hears from Radio Tahiti in the South Pacific. Others simply like to be on top of things. Short-wave fans were among the first to learn of the fire that destroyed the Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska last October and were able to follow rescue attempts, as other craft radioed their moves...
Though always serious in discussing his craft, Lewis is quick to point out that his words often have little impact on the outside world. "There is a temptation to be deluded into thinking you are going to influence something," he says, adding that "Every once in a while you can feel some incremental influence but it rarely happens in a dramatic way. He writes "resigned to the fact that a column is not going to change the world...
...RAGING BULL is, as the advertisements would indicate, Robert DeNiro's movie. DeNiro combines all the wit and spontaneity and genuineness of a Method actor like Brando with all the craft and attention to detail of an Olivier. You become oblivious to the devices he's using: the way he takes the windmill motion of bodypunching, for example, and turns it into LaMotta's leitmotif. Things that DeNiro did to prepare for the movie--learning boxing well enough to become a good club fighter, for example, or gaining 60 pounds or whatever to play LaMotta in later life--have almost...