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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...
...more conventional units for time. The sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 took place only nine years later, in 2010. The latest adventure of the still ( youthful Heywood Floyd and his cybernetic companion, HAL the computer, occurs 51 years further on. As astronomers know, 2061 is the year Halley's comet is next scheduled to enter the inner solar system, providing a sequel of its own. Despite a soft landing on that astral body, the reappearance of the celebrated black monoliths of superintelligence, and references to voicegrams, audiomail and vocards, Clarke's future bears a marked resemblance...
...best, it will take years before Gorbachev's program of freeing industry from Moscow's stifling central control results in any significant increase in the quantity and quality of goods reaching Soviet consumers. Gorbachev complains that "Soviet rockets can find Halley's comet and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but . . . many household appliances are of poor quality." The Soviet leader may be hard put to maintain the popular support he is counting on to overcome bureaucratic lethargy and opposition. Gauging public opinion in the U.S.S.R. is a highly uncertain art, but letters to the Soviet press often approve...