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Last week the Soviet team had callers. From the fog-shrouded space station at Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, two more cosmonauts were launched into orbit aboard Soyuz 27. They were Air Force Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Dzhanibekov, 35, a pilot who is making his first space flight, and Oleg Makarov, 44, his civilian flight engineer whose two previous Soyuz missions included a flight that was aborted and forced to land in the snows of Siberia near the Chinese border in 1975. After chasing the blinking red and blue lights of Salyut round the earth for a day, the cosmonauts caught up with...
...geographic or population centers that its clocks run two hours ahead of those in Anchorage, the state's major city (pop. 161,600). Surrounded by water on one side and awesome glaciers on the other, Juneau is accessible only by boat or plane; frequent rains and fog and surrounding lofty mountains often make landings a pilot's nightmare. For these reasons, Alaskans have long debated a possible change of capitals. In 1974, after two unsuccessful initiatives, they finally voted to make the move, and the hunt began for a new site...
...overall forecast is cheering, considering the fog of worry about the economy that has enveloped the nation in recent months. For all its progress in production, jobs, personal income (up around 11 %) and corporate profits (about 12% ahead of last year, after taxes), 1977 brought the economy a set of nagging headaches. Stock prices tumbled through the year; the Dow Jones industrial average is now about 19% below what it was at the close...
...chill fog swirled around the Bay Area, these officials let off steam by calling for a more comprehensive?and costly ?federal policy to uplift the cities and fight urban unemployment. They emphasized the stickiness of that problem, shown by the fact that unemployment last month slipped only fractionally, from 7% to 6.9%, although the number of Americans at work soared...
...islands, along the perilous shoals of the Carolinas, through the lost waterways of the Everglades and Louisiana bayous, then up the West Coast from the desert sands of Baja California, past the cypresses of Monterey and the great coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest to the fog-shrouded Aleutians. Readers may not finish the tour with sand in their shoes, but most will close this lyrical volume yearning for the smell of salt...