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...debatable than elsewhere. Rather, it neatly avoids the undertones that unavoidably creep into more extensive coverage. The wild enthusiasm over Sally Ride's flight wasn't sexist; but the most scrupulous editor couldn't avoid addressing the question of whether it was more difficult, somehow, for a woman to orbit the Earth; whether the milestone was womanhood's for evolving to that point, or NASA's for abandoning a benighted state of consciousness. The line between those two types of progress must have been in the back of somebody's mind, because the following week, when NASA sent...
Before some of the events of these past 60 years, the only proper human reaction might have been an awed silence. How else to respond to the concentration camps? To man's escape from the earth's orbit? To nuclear destruction? Even perhaps to the computer? Yet journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. TIME has spoken once a week for 60 years and, in so doing...
Beyond the reach of the Soviet army, only two nations have in effect volunteered themselves into the Moscow orbit, Viet Nam and Cuba. The presence of a Cuban ally so close to American shores tempted Nikita Khrushchev to install missiles there in 1962. The dramatic confrontation of the Cuban missile crisis ended with Khrushchev's backing down, hastening his own downfall and spurring the humiliated Soviet leadership into a costly arms buildup. As for Castro, his first attempts to spread his revolution through Latin America were rebuffed, but now he is trying again in Central America...
Nonetheless, all connected with the film rush to claim that no special consideration was given to the character of Glenn. "As Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth, his story is more dramatic than most of the others'," says Irwin Winkler, one of the film's producers. "By condensing Wolfe's book into the drama of a film, Glenn became more sympathetic." Kaufman points out that shooting was wrapped up in October 1982; he contends, somewhat ingenuously, that it was only in December, when Senator Edward Kennedy announced he would not seek the Democratic nomination...
...near fringe of farm country, where no statistics establish their health. What seems clear is that more and more city dwellers are fleeing to them, though not all of the newcomers can entirely flee the economic pull of metropolises. Most jobs are still in the cities, and ruburbanites orbit them like far-flung asteroids...