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...future either. The nature of its promise is mixed, since part of its immediate purpose is to sprinkle the void with whirling gizmos, including a couple of spies. Yet the other side of its promise is shimmering. Only astronauts operating from a space shuttle could create the ferris wheel depicted in 2001, could build a celestial city within and against the dark...
Your Essay "The Endless Rediscovery of the Wheel" [Dec. 15] strikes an oddly optimistic note at the end. I fear we've lost far more of our cultural traditions than we can hope to rediscover. Too much of the social glue-church, family, local community-that used to hold our psyches intact has been dissolved...
...labor, and this afternoon he was far out in the woods clearing one of his riding trails. With an 8-ft. pruning pole he reached high into the drooping branches, poking, pulling, sawing back and forth. For years he has stretched his muscles with a small, rubber-tired wheel that has a wooden bar through its center. Crouched on his knees, Reagan rolls the wheel far out in front of him, back and forth, 30 or 40 times. He even carries it with him on the road...
...Chrysler itself will cut operating expenditures by reducing its white-collar payroll by another 2,200 people, to 21,800. The company will also scrap plans to enlarge its front-wheel-drive production capacity for 1984. Iacocca said that these measures alone would cut costs next year by $575 million...
...baseball's annual meetings, the elite meet to wheel and deal...