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...pessimist's short catechism?"It will get worse, it will get worse, it will get worse"?applies to tennis elbow, OPEC exactions, the seven ages of man, Skylab, the Middle East, airline food, the New Conservatism, college tuition, smog and the length and lack of substance of presidential campaigns. It does not apply to 17-year locusts?they come and they go?or, it is startling to realize, to movies. Just now, for instance, a trend is flowering unexpectedly and delightfully: for some reason that no one even pretends to be able to explain, an unusual number of extremely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...After Skylab showered debris across this country, I'm glad that God, and not NASA, put the moon into orbit around the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...Skylab is down. And no one was hurt. NASA'S predictions have been vindicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") is valid, why didn't Skylab break up over New York City Paris or Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...ludicrous for anyone to suggest that Skylab is an "example of technology outracing man's means of control." Rather, it is an example of what happens when unimaginative penny pinchers refuse to permit full application of existing technology. Politicians should stay out of complex design decisions. Either provide funding to do a project properly, or don't fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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