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Eleven years ago a small, unmanned spacecraft looking like the product of a child's Erector Set took off from Florida on a historic mission. Equipped with primitive electronic eyes and other instruments, Pioneer 10 flew past the giant planet Jupiter, providing the first startling close-up view of that distant world. Now the surprisingly durable robot, whose working parts were designed by its builder, TRW, to last only two or three years, has scored another remarkable achievement. Propelled by a gravitational boost from Jupiter, it has become the first man-made object to leave the solar system...
...comic books, on TV in the '50s and in two hugely successful movies (1978 and 1981), Superman has triumphed over nearly every species of injustice. The villains of Metropolis bang their clenched fists against his chest and go away whimpering. Preternatural varmints from the planet Krypton attempt to bend his will to theirs and end up with splitting headaches. But now, perhaps, the Man of Steel has finally met his match: his own rotten self. See Good battle Evil in a schizophrenic clash that makes for the most entertaining and affecting Superman...
Superman's personality has been threatening to go splitsville ever since he was saddled with the alter ego of Clark Kent, ace reporter and consummate nerd of the Daily Planet. Clark is every clumsy, sweet-souled teen-age boy who ever fantasized scoring the big touchdown or scoring with the prom queen; Superman is the 6-ft. 4-in. embodiment of that dream. This man is both men, hulk and hunk, and no telephone booth is big enough to house the inherent contradictions...
Many of them were created by T. Logan Evans'85 council member during the fall. Declaring that he believed "in a unification of the planet with in the U.S. system" in his "Theory of the Cosmopolis," Evans sought the council's chairman-ship proposing massive weekly trivia quizzes in Harvard Yard and town meetings in Sanders Theater, Brian L. Melendez '86, the council's vice-chairman, believes Evans saw the council as the "stepping stone to world domination...
Paul Weitz, 50, crew member on the 1973 Skylab mission and commander of the first Challenger voyage last April, on the early astronauts' descriptions of the earth as "a beautiful blue marble": "It was blue in the beginning, and now it's a gray planet. What's the message? We are fouling our nest...