Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months behind schedule. Meanwhile, the interest rate on Deane's loan has been going up and up; last week it reached 17.75%. The people who had been assured of mortgage loans are no longer certain that they can get them, or afford them, at the new rates. The space he hopes to sell has risen by as much as 50% in value over the past two years, but the costs of sitting on 56,000 sq. ft. of a largely unoccupied building have eroded his potential profit when he gets the building finished...
Dressed in somber gray suits and minus 25 Ibs. (thanks to a low-fat diet), he stressed pet schemes: overhaul the fiscal and monetary system, rebuild the cities, renew the space program, balance the federal budget, protect the environment, phase out nuclear energy. Says Brown: "The Democratic Party is headed for defeat in November unless it comes up with the answers for the decline in our economy, the decline of our technology...
...fodder... They'll put you in a war plane and order you to kill people." Kinsman, already straining his Quaker heritage by joining the military, vows he won't be a pawn of a system he does not like but must deal with to get what he wants--into space...
...Soviet satellite, Kinsman kills a Russian cosmonaut by yanking out her airhose as they grapple soundlessly in the vacuum. Haunted and horrified that he could commit such an act Kinsman must find out what made him kill another human being without reason. Only then can he bring into space his victory of morality over military training, confrontation politics, and the squandering of resources...all earthbound evil...
Barring our premature destruction, we're going out into space, says Bova. It may take a while--politicians have these tar pits they call committees--but industry will want raw materials and the military nice spots to place their nuclear weapons. Power and the profits will be their motivations, not scientific curiosity or the thrill and the strangeness of space. They won't "come in peace for all mankind." But a few--like Kinsman--may. The game will be played; we might as well start rooting for the good guys