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...World Showcase, both intended, in the words of Disney's trumpeters, to "satisfy the imaginative appetites of the tens of millions of people . . . destined to become 'Epcot travelers.' " Visitors enter through a building that is already a symbol of the center: an 18-story geosphere called Spaceship Earth. Inside they are whisked along a track to view a depiction of man's evolution in communications from cave to spaceship, glimpsing such wonders as Gutenberg's print shop, an Audio-Animatronic Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, and astronauts at work...
...Another nebulous power--this one inexplicably takes hold of a few dozen common folk and draws them to a spaceship's landing site...
...women in space, attended parties and even lectured to children at the Vienna planetarium. At week's end, however, Fisher's star was eclipsed by a 34-year-old acrobatic pilot and parachutist named Svetlana Savitskaya, who blasted off with two male crew mates in the Soviet spaceship Soyuz T-7 on Thursday. She was only the second woman, after fellow Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, to make such a flight. With a superb sense of timing, the Soviets had sent Savitskaya into orbit in Unispace 82's closing hours...
...former Doctor Doress, Professor Doress and all that jazz. From now on it is going to be plain, ordinary Ivy Doress working in the best way he knows how to preserve spaceship earth, the crew and passengers. I'm not a complete iconoclast. I welcome anyone with a strong commitment toward peace, without this or that hidden agenda, and with a capacity for a very difficult organizing effort to come forward and join...
...Firefox prototype trying to shoot him down, Mitchell Gant has his hands full. He is engaged in a dogfight covering thousands of square miles, and it is a thing of wit and beauty and, above all, lightning reflexes. These planes move with the blasting power of a Star Wars spaceship, and it is fun to see the future zinging and skittering through our own airspace. Eastwood's laconic professionalism plays off amusingly against the high-tech complexity of his flying machine. And its cruelly trim design plays off handsomely against the bleak beauty of the arctic cloudscapes, icescapes...