Word: halley
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...black country singers signed to a major label since Charley Pride in the '60s, is a 46-year-old cardiologist from the suburbs of Washington. Mary-Chapin Carpenter has a degree in American civilization from Brown University; she drew the idea for her highly successful When Halley Came to Jackson, about the appearance of Halley's comet in Mississippi, from a line in the memoirs of Eudora Welty. K.T. Oslin once made a living as a Broadway chorus girl, and when she turned to country in her mid-40s, it was to sing about such nonbucolic topics as older women...
Wang began to make a systematic study of astronomy during the appearance of Halley's Comet in the fall of 1985. He wrote a report detailing a year-and-a-half-long series of observations on the comet which was published a year later...
Matthiessen frames his story in the buffetings of tides and storms. Not for nothing is Watson slaughtered shortly after the passage of Halley's comet and a mighty hurricane. The weather is always restless, "the wild tread of God" often heard and felt. Occasionally the terrain gets cluttered. But Matthiessen is a man who can write his way out of any storm. What an old-timer says of his wood pony applies equally to Matthiessen: He can "turn on a dime and give back nine cents change." On a good day, maybe even eleven...
...concept of a space sailing race first surfaced in Arthur C. Clarke's 1963 story The Wind from the Sun, about a seven-craft regatta to the moon. And in the mid-1970s, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena actually designed a sophisticated sailship to rendezvous with Halley's comet, but a NASA budget squeeze killed the project...
...artwork ready for printing a lot quicker than two years ago." On paper or on the computer, Lertola has been designing graphics for most sections of TIME since 1983, but his special fascination is with things scientific. He has been called upon to diagram such arcana as Halley's comet and the human immune system...