Word: hub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite initial Russian hints of a complex mission of long duration, U.S. scientists suspected shortly after Salyut was launched that something had gone wrong. The heavy cylindrical craft, intended as the hub of a space station, reached an orbit of only 140 by 130 miles. That meant that it was passing through the outer fringes of the atmosphere, which would slow it down and cause it to burn up in a plunge back toward earth within a few weeks...
...attracted attention round the world, but was virtually ignored at home. Though never geisha-gracious like Kyoto, its sister city to the southwest, Tokyo has always made up for its lack of physical charm with a sense of rawboned excitement. Its pleasure districts are the gaudiest anywhere. The hub of the nation's cultural life, Tokyo boasts five symphony orchestras, attracts most of the country's artists and hosts more than half a million university students...
...technological recession is not limited to the aerospace centers of southern California and the state of Washington. Along Massachusetts' famed Route 128, hub of the nation's electronics industry, up to 20% of the professional labor force is estimated to be out of work. At Florida's Cape Kennedy, the number of jobs has dropped by 40%. The cutbacks have even touched the onetime elite of American science. Of the nation's 20,000 physicists with Ph.D.s, at least 3,000 were looking for work at year's end; about half of the job seekers...
...Springtime in the Hub, time for long walks with your sweetheart, picnics under a flowing willow tree, or throwing a frisbec to and fro. These are the rites of Spring, which Mother Nature's children return to year after year...
...date with Emily, Got that? In a clever climax (around episode four) they all end up at the Museum of Fine Arts, where each muses over the exhibits and applies his particularly aesthetic standards to them. Kane, for instance, rhapsodizes to his daughter, "This is it, Mary Anne, the hub of the hub of the "universe. Culture! The reason you're here is to let some of the culture rub off on you. Culture has to do with responsibility..." Many Anne doesn't reply, but as they wander through the Museum, she keeps repeating in awe to herself, "Dynamite...