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...fashionable guru. With 62 centers in North America besides the Catskills ashram, he has attracted more than 20,000 devotees since his arrival in 1974. He has also received respectful visits from such celebrities as California Governor Jerry Brown, Singers James Taylor and Carly Simon, Anthropologist Carlos Castaneda and Astronaut Edgar Mitchell. At home in India, too, he has a considerable following. There are centers of his disciples all over the subcontinent. He will return there this fall in a chartered Air India 747, together with 400 American devotees and a pet bull terrier. But this is undoubtedly...
OHIO'S GLENN, 55. The former astronaut-hero is rated by Carter's pollster, Pat Caddell, as the most popular of the contenders. Yet Carter concedes this may be based mainly on the fact that his is the best-known name. Though Glenn has proved industrious in Washington, displaying expertise on energy and antinuclear-proliferation legislation, he has held public office only since 1975, and seems the least adequately prepared of the group to move into the White House...
...either to expand the search or to stand in for Viking 1 should something go amiss with the first lander. Scientists rate Viking's chances of a successful landing at 70%. Unlike the Apollo lunar module, which could be maneuvered out of harm's way by the astronaut pilot as it neared the moon's surface, the unmanned Viking lander must descend along a preprogrammed path all the way to its touchdown. If it encounters a large boulder, a deep crevice, too steep a slope or high winds upon landing, the craft could topple over...
...Guthrie grew up in Miami, Fla., in a world of combustion engines, went on to log over 400 hours as a pilot herself, and has been driving fast cars since 1963. Single, a resident of New York City and a physicist, she was one of four women considered for astronaut status by NASA in 1965. She has competed in more than 120 recognized auto races; her most impressive wins were in the "Under 2 Liter Prototype" class at Sebring, Fla., in 1970 and in the "B Sedan" class in the 1973 North Atlantic Road Racing Championship...
...updates. The Quarterly shares the slapdash grafitti layout that made The Catalog great bedtime reading, interspersed with long articles on topics like saddles and trappings, space colonies, and what's left of the New Left. There are also interviews with at least nominally interesting people like Marlon Brando and astronaut Russell Schweickart...