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More than 2 million people bought the 1974 book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, in which author Robert Pirsig discoursed on philosophy, the psyche and values. After a 16-year silence, Pirsig has now turned in the manuscript for a follow-up that could reach booksellers by autumn. His publisher, Morrow, has gambled an estimated $2.3 million advance that many of the readers touched by the first work would rush to buy the second. In Lila, Pirsig chronicles a journey undertaken by Phaedrus, whom readers may recognize as Pirsig's alter ego in the earlier book. Phaedrus meets...
...within Comecon. Hundreds of enterprises were working to produce goods for the Soviet economy, goods the West would not buy because of quality or other factors. We could not switch overnight, and we still cannot do it today. Imagine the scenario had the opposition ((Solidarity)) taken over in the autumn of 1981 and inherited such an economic situation on the eve of winter, when there were already serious shortages in the marketplace. It would have been a catastrophe and may have even made impossible all the changes that have taken place this past year...
...SEARCH FOR SCARLETT II Margaret Mitchell refused to write a Gone With the Wind sequel, yet publishers were undeterred. In 1988 romance novelist Alexandra Ripley was selected to write the saga, but Warner Books, which paid $5 million for the rights, let the autumn 1990 publishing date slip...
...across western California, in huge steel tanks and small oak barrels, grape juice from the autumn harvest is bubbling to be reborn as wine -- and omens for the 1990 vintage look good. True, late spring rains on the north coast meant that the crop of Chardonnay, the state's premier white-wine grape, was smaller than normal. No such problem with the reds, though. And the nose knows. Jim Fetzer, one of 10 siblings who run the family's 1,400-acre vineyard in Mendocino County, says his vintners tell him that "the winery hasn't smelled this good...
...piece of metal they can to sell for scrap, from awnings to aluminum stepladders. Along State Road 112, only 2% of the lights work, because thieves have ripped off the copper wiring. At one point, Florida had 5,800 addicts begging to get into treatment programs. The number this autumn fell to under 2,000. But experts say that is because many of those who want help most have despaired of getting it and gone back to the street...