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...explosion that destroyed Challenger inevitably evoked memories of an earlier tragedy in America's space program. On Jan. 27, 1967, a fire erupted in the first manned Apollo spacecraft as it sat atop its Saturn 1-B rocket during a test at Cape Kennedy. The blaze killed Virgil ("Gus") Grissom, 40, Edward White, 36, and Roger Chaffee, 31, who until last week were the only astronauts to perish aboard a U.S. spacecraft...
...producer of high-technology equipment, for $5.2 billion. The agreement followed GM's 1984 acquisition of Electronic Data Systems, a premier data-processing firm. The world's largest automaker hopes to use the skills of its two new units to move into special areas of technology, especially with the Saturn project, which aims to build a small car that can compete with Japanese models. EDS is designing computer software that will link all aspects of Saturn operations from the showroom to the shop floor, while Hughes will develop electronic systems for GM cars...
...conceived in a more hopeful past. It is a neat trick. This strain of the new-wave sensibility is an ironic mixture of nostalgia and contempt, simultaneously mock futurist and mock historicist. The allusions are to old television and B movies. At the Whitney, Dakota Jackson's UFO-shaped Saturn stool (1976) and R.M. Fischer's enormous, intimidating Max lamp (1983) are like fakey props from 1950s science-fiction films. Burton's saw-toothed aluminum chair (1980-81) seems to be a throne awaiting a space-age dictator, Dune-style. Bruce Tomb's wood-and-granite propane cookstove...
...sprawling complex, which, in addition to generating thousands of jobs, could attract other high-tech businesses to the area. In that respect, says Bob Chandler, city manager of Winnemucca, Nev. (pop. 5,270), one of the contending sites, "it's a hundred times better than the General Motors' Saturn plant...
...something in a novel. Bradbury calls it Death Is a Lone- ly Business, and he dedicates the work to such masters of the form as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are about as close to this beachfront vaudeville as Mars and Saturn are to Pluto (the Disney dog, not the planet). It hardly matters. All of the productions, from Something Wicked This Way Comes to The Martian Chronicles, are portions sawed from a long plank called Bradbury. Brief or full length, they bear the characteristic fine grain, knots, splinters and warps...