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...Friends had me convinced that 1 had a gear or two out of mesh when I developed a strong interest in motorcycles. Robert Hughes did a fine job of explaining what happened...
Faint Signals. Russian scientists had redesigned the Venera spacecraft to withstand pressures of 150 earth atmospheres and temperatures in excess of 1000° F. They also redesigned their parachute (probably made of steel mesh) to enable Venera to descend more rapidly to the surface. To allow for the higher landing velocity, they incorporated a shock-absorbing landing gear...
...only two offerings of the current London theater do script and staging mesh at a truly first-rate level: Ingmar Bergman's production of Hedda Gabler and Jonathan Miller's of The Merchant of Venice, both for the National Theater. Yet even these are star vehicles, Hedda for Maggie Smith, and Merchant for Laurence Olivier as Shylock (at least until recently when a thrombosis forced him off the stage for three months). In most of London's other notable productions, playwrights and directors more or less suffer stellar eclipses...
...final contribution, Pedrick, whose tongue is, of course, in cheek, suggests equipping the ball with an interior wire mesh. The mesh would act as a reflector, or target, for a portable radar unit stashed inside the golf bag. Thus the ball could be easily recovered if, despite all of Pedrick's technological aids, it went astray in the woods...
...date. The solution, he says, is cable TV (which perhaps 75% of Americans will have by 1980) hooked to a central computer switching station with hundreds of cassettes on tap. "I call it 'jukebox TV,' " says Klein. Klein leaves NBC this week to form a company to mesh computer retrieval, CATV and the cartridge. He calls the idea "the ultimate 20th century combination,'' and optimistically predicts that it could reach the market in ten years...