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...among college students, and something of an anachronism. Married twice, 27 years old, a four-year Marine with four military ribbons to his name, caught between the We and Me generations. Chuck Hamlin will clutch his diploma today and cherish it as the culmination of a nine-year personal odyssey. He has come a long way. How many Harvard students finished 485th out of 522 in their high school class (and admit it without blinking)? And how many Harvard students participated in the evacuation of Saigon in April...
...simple and flawless, almost as if it had been performed countless times before. Yet the picture-perfect landing on California's Mojave Desert last week all but obscured the historic nature of those last, breathtaking moments of Columbia's 54½-hr. odyssey. Gone were the great parachutes and swinging capsules of earlier space missions, splashing into the sea, never to travel into space again. For the first time, a man-made machine had returned from the heavens like an ordinary airplane-in fact, far more smoothly than many a commercial jet. So long delayed so widely criticized...
...more distant future, such stations, like the great wheel in 2001: A Space Odyssey, could serve as a launch pad for journeys far beyond the earth, maybe to Mars. Interplanetary spacecraft assembled in earth orbit could be made of much lighter and less costly materials since they would not have to survive the stresses and friction of travel through the earth's atmosphere...
...theme for 25 years. Here he explores a different kind of angst: the transformation from practicing Jew to militant Communist, a journey taken by thousands of thinkers and millions of chanting followers from the steps of the Winter Palace to the barbed wire of the Gulag. Wiesel reduces that odyssey to the tale of a single wanderer, Paltiel Kossover, a minor poet whose life becomes a battle between the divine and the dialectic...
...surprised to read that the biblical account of the Exodus does not answer the question of why Moses turned right upon reaching the Sinai [March 23] or why he led the Israelites on the 40-year odyssey. My Bible answers both...