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...mission was among the most spectacular in the 26-year history of the American space program. It was designed to demonstrate that the U.S. is once again roving the high frontier and showing plenty of the right stuff. The loudest cheerleader was President Ronald Reagan. "You demonstrated that we can work in space in ways that we never imagined were possible," he radioed the four-man, one-woman crew of Discovery. If the President has his way, nightly news viewers "ain't seen nothin' yet." Reagan wants to launch a permanent space station by 1992 (the 500th anniversary...
...inflation. A ticket from New York City to Los Angeles (2,475 miles) on People costs $119, and at least five carriers offer seats on flights between Dallas and Houston (217 miles) for $25. At the same time, though, prices on lightly traveled routes remain high. A one-way Frontier Airlines coach ticket from Denver to North Platte, Neb. (207 miles), can cost as much...
...nationalist cheer have occurred before. Many historians, from Henry Adams to Arthur Schlesinger, have postulated that the U.S. undergoes regular historical cycles 20 to 30 years long, periods of great social combustion alternating with quiescence, change followed by consolidation. After the War of 1812 and its embargoes, the frontier opened up, the economy took off, American fractiousness subsided, and the extraordinary era of good feelings commenced, lasting for more than a decade. The 1920s coincided with a less constructive but perhaps giddier national mood that found expression in the election of two laissez-faire Presidents...
That transgression is not the only source of the current church-state battle. Archbishop John J. O'Connor of New York tested his side of the frontier when he declared, "I don't see how a Catholic in good conscience can vote for a candidate who explicitly supports abortion." At which point Governor Mario Cuomo of New York, a Catholic, took the unusual and politically courageous step of challenging the Archbishop. (Last week Cuomo followed up with a thoughtful meditation, delivered at Notre Dame, on the tension between religious and public morality...
...called Dallas a frontier. He talked about the 1820s, when his people first came to Texas. Land was grabbed up at 10? an acre. Now the new entrepreneurs occupy office buildings instead of ranges. But there is more than that to Dallas. People are taken at face value here, he said, "as long as they pull their own oar." Clements pulled his own oar. He built up an oil-drilling business called Sedco. The Sedco building is not a shiny tower but a set of refurbished woody offices housed in the shell of the first brick school in Dallas...