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...progress, an all-seeing but unmanned spacecraft no larger than a compact car completed the final and most spectacular phase of an epochal journey. Beating Buck Rogers and the faithful Wilma, sci-fi heroes of the pre-Star Trek generation, by five centuries, Voyager 1 brushed past the ringed planet Saturn, second largest member of the sun's family, and provided the best images yet of that strange and wondrous world, a far-off realm in the solar system never before glimpsed with such glittering clarity. Said one scientist watching the incoming tide of images: "We have learned more...
...more speed under the tug of Saturnian gravity, it plunged downward toward the outer edge of Saturn's rings, swirling bits of cosmic debris. Reaching a peak velocity of 91,000 km (56,600 miles) per hour, Voyager skirted within 124,240 km (77,200 miles) of the planet's banded cloud tops for its nearest approach to Saturn...
...while its instruments and television cameras blinked away furiously, almost as if they had a life of their own. So large did Saturn loom in the robot's probing electronic eyes that they could capture only small swatches of the planet's stormy atmosphere. The spacecraft executed its maneuvers with astonishing precision - near the climax of its long journey it was only 19 km (12 miles) off course. Finally, Voyager climbed upward, once again crossing just outside Saturn's rings. Casting backward glances with its cameras and instruments, it soared above the ecliptic - the plane formed...
...forget it. What Allen is after is nothing less than the demolition of the concept of the artist as benefactor to mankind. Bates can no longer contemplate making his popular farces because of his determination that he has to do something about the wretchedness of this planet, but his efforts to do serious works are unsuccessful and barely tolerated. At that, the quality of his work scarcely matters because his audience applauds even his commonplace remark. He's trapped no matter what he does. When he gets a chance to ask a space visitor what he can do for mankind...
This is a reversal we can't afford. If America chose in the late 1800s to ignore populism and place its faith in an expanding economy, to ignore the plagues of race and sex discrimination, and treat the rest of the planet as if it were a warehouse to be looted, it meant trouble for a few generations of Americans. But now we are trying the same thing in a day when the rest of the world demands and deserves a share of the world's wealth. In an age when the fact of scarcity--the idea Reagan...