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...Halley's Comet? The Head of the Charles? A Red Sox World Series Championship...
...section of Los Angeles and heads for an office in Beverly Hills. There, amid a clutter of toys, masks, board games and books, he works on at least six projects at a time, continually surprising himself. His current favorite: a space opera about a man once blinded by a comet who murderously seeks it in the void. "Sort of Ahab with jet boosters," as the author sees it. He also plans a new book of verse, a novel, a collection of articles past, and a nonfiction work on Ireland, a place he has not lived in since...
Students hoping for a prime view of Halley's comet this fall may have seen their hopes dashed Friday, when the mechanical dome protecting Harvard's Michaels telescope malfunctioned and put the instrument out of commission for at least a week...
...dome, which opens and closes mechanically to protect the large telescope in the roof of the Science Center, apparently short-circuited while a group of students were preparing to see the comet. The comet, which was highly visible last week, will not be as easily observed until it moves into prime position next spring...
...students present when the dome's driving mechanism stuck were members of Science B-16, "The History of Earth and of Life." The course's leader, Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould, had obtained special permission for his students to use the telescope to view Halley's comet last week...