Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While most Americans neither mourned nor feared Skylab's menacing death, some saw in it yet another in a series of examples of technology outracing man's means of control. A sequence of human and mechanical failures never envisioned by its builders had nearly caused the meltdown of a nuclear reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island. The mysterious cracks emerging in engine mountings of the DC-10 jumbo jets had led to the grounding of the fleet and America's most tragic air disaster. Now a giant spacecraft, crippled at birth six years ago, is plunging toward a premature...
...hoopla is also taking a playful turn. Clear Lake, Texas, Houston's space suburb, is staging a series of parades, dances, wine tastings and baby contests (with the toddlers dressed in moon suits). At Cape Canaveral, moon buffs hope to form a 26-mile human chain along the beaches. The Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas will be the site of a show-biz bash called "America's Salute to the Astronauts"; any of them who turn up have been promised a flight to San Clemente, Calif., for a poolside lunch with former President Richard Nixon. At Chicago...
...resources of the universe that is now opening up are, by all human standards, infinite. There are no limits to growth among the stars. Unfortunately, there is a tragic mismatch between our present needs and our capabilities. The conquest of space will not arrive soon enough to save millions from leading starved and stunted lives...
...that we exploit to the utmost the marvelous tools that space technology has already given us. Even now, few Americans realize that the skills, materials and instruments their engineers devised on the road to the moon have paid for themselves many times over, both in hard cash and in human welfare...
...human toll makes the civil war even more tragic: Red Cross sources estimated that deaths could run as many as 15,000; there are about 600,000 homeless, living in overcrowded refugee centers in cities or camping out in the countryside. If a Nicaraguan can afford the airfare, he is likely to leave the country, if only to find work elsewhere. Thousands of wealthy Nicaraguans have been filtering into the U.S. on tourist visas. Many of them are living in Florida. An informal meeting of the board of one of Nicaragua's largest corporations was held in Miami. Most...