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GOING to the Hub is like seeing a play in your neighbor's living room. The theatre is in the basement of the Old West Church, in the Sunday School room. It is practically dark when you arrive; the only light comes from the Church kitchen, where they sell (what else?) coffee and doughnuts. The place exudes friendliness, Hub Theatre people are highly philosophical about what they are in the business for. They see themselves as spreaders of the gospel of "life," preachers of the essential goodness of man; that "man can and should be a determiner of life rather...
Which is really too bad. The Hub Theatre wants to tell its audience something, and by telling, to learn. The Rimers of Eldritch and the style to which it is limited are simply not capable of producing this kind of realization...
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...