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More definitive answers will have to await the four additional Mars probes now planned by NASA. In 1971, during the next close approach of Mars, the U.S. will send two photographic spacecraft into orbit around the planet for at least 90 days each. The orbiters will take a series of pictures showing seasonal changes on Mars, map the entire surface and enable scientists to choose likely looking spots for future landings. High priority will be given to sites with the warmest temperatures and greatest traces of moisture...
...Sarah await the inevitable. "You won't hear him. He just comes," warns Sarah. "I'll hear him," Varner insists. But he never does. Salvaje picks off the ranch's hired hands one by one. Varner at last realizes that the only way around fate is through it and goes out into the woods to confront his pursuer. The stalker becomes the stalked, the suspense winds as taut as a leather thong, and the violent conclusion is as inevitable as moonset and death...
...more of what Westin calls "instant topicality." Westin is now producing background programs on issues that he anticipates will again become crucial-the crisis on the campuses and the power of the military-industrial complex, for example. When finished, the shows will go into a bank to await a news...
...country from bomb-happy right-wingers. Justly loathing the Establishment, fearing the infection of its diseased cultural tradition, They have become sensation-bound technocrats. One of their earliest decrees is that everyone over 50 must live apart from society. Most of the aged are consigned to public institutions to await death-from either natural causes or pills and injections called "compilers." A few old folks who have made notable contributions in the arts or sciences are permitted to live on in their own homes, provided they are far enough away from population centers not to contaminate anyone...
...guests at dinner parties in Hyannisport with his recollections of Winston Churchill. Friends, particularly women, prize him as a perfect listener. Even more peripatetic than Jackie, he caroms around the world carrying only a battered attaché case and a gold-embossed red leather appointment book. Duplicate sets of clothing await him at his pieds-à-terre in Paris (on the Avenue Foch), London (Claridge's), Montevideo, Athens and Manhattan (the Pierre). Under his ownership, Olympic Airways?on which he holds a charter from the Greek government until A.D. 2004?is an ever-ready magic carpet...