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...Lullaby, he froze. "Marge!" he begged, and she appeared from the kitchen and placed his hands. "You've got it now," she said. "You sure?" he asked, and then played it fine. Albert Tesch, the town plumber, came in on the organ next and offered a sweet Carolina Moon and If I Loved You. Then in the course of an hour and a quarter they all returned in various combinations and played other tunes. The audience was effusive with its applause...
...more space shuttle will not meet the challenge. For the moment, America has lost its nerve and its vision from the top down. What we do in space now is just as important as the Panama Canal, the atom bomb, the cure for polio, the trip to the moon. The most frightening deficit is in boldness...
...Paine, NASA's boss when we landed on the moon, came through the capital last week, echoing the same dim thoughts. NASA has tried to do too much with too little. Its $7.7 billion budget is not chicken feed. But it is not much; after all, we are spending $25 billion for subsidies that are not solving the farm problem. A NASA budget of $10 billion or even $20 billion, taken from other places, is perfectly parsimonious considering the dividends...
Brother Sun, Sister Moon...
...News immediately expanded to 48 pages. "We decided we had to match the news hole of the Times," says McClatchy, 59. As publisher, McClatchy plucked brash Jerry Grilly from Florida, where he was running a chain of weeklies. "It was like someone offered me a job on the moon," recalls Grilly, now 39. The moon might have been cozier. When Grilly arrived in Anchorage, the Times controlled 85% of the advertising dollars. "It was tough getting people to return my calls, much less buy," he says. But Grilly pelted away at prospective advertisers and built an 80-person circulation cadre...