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...sequel to another Aldridge novel, A Captive in the Land, about the same enlightened multimillionaire who had been made Hero of the Soviet Union after dragging a paralyzed Russian explorer to safety over an incredible distance of polar ice. Has he been brainwashed? The sinister Admiral Lille, chief of naval intelligence, seems to think so, and the reader may well decide, despite Aldridge, that the old sea dog is right. There is a great deal of top-level muckraking about the malevolent moral dwarfs who operate international finance-capitalism; it is possibly the least convincing stuff since Upton Sinclair...
August 1980. Perched on his polar-orbiting platform 200 miles above the earth, the Weatherman in the Sky begins a routine scan of the earth's surface. Beyond the green necklace of the Antilles, Hurricane Clytemnestra begins to collapse, shredded by a continuous aerial barrage of silver-iodide seeds from U.S. planes. The weatherman flashes Moscow that intense hail is due to fall on Irkutsk by early afternoon, and the Russians quickly send up rockets laden with chemicals, melting the hail before it lifts the wheat fields. As for more mundane matters, vacationers on Cape Cod will have...
...classical reasons for suspecting that life is in the dark somes is ambignous, Pollack paid. It is known that dark areas become darker in the spring, while the polar caps are evaporating. So, the old 'theory goes, this must be increased vegetation...
From Novosibirsk, De Gaulle flew south to Baikonur, the Soviet Union's main space center. No other Westerner had ever seen the Baikonur "cosmodrome," and the Russians topped that distinction by launching a satellite in De Gaulle's honor-probably, said wags, a polar-orbiting satellite aimed at spying on the U.S. From there, at week's end, De Gaulle flew on to Leningrad for tours of the Hermitage and the Petrodvorets palace-and more talks with Podgorny and Kosygin about the ultimate disposition of Europe...
Still another effort, which is perhaps the most delicate and sophisticated relativity check yet designed, will even involve NASA's growing capability in space. Within the next few years, if all goes well, a satellite will be launched into a 500-mile-high polar orbit. It will carry a virtually perfect gyroscope-one that is almost completely free from friction, gravitational pull or magnetic fields. If the general relativity theory is correct, according to calculations made by Stanford University Physicist Leonard Schiff, the gyroscope should precess-change the direction of its axis of rotation-about 1/500th of a degree...