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Peter S. Gardner 76-4, spent part of several summers building a one room Lincoln Log cabin on his family's property in northern Vermont. Next week, Gardner and his brother will stretch a canvas across the top of the unfinished structure and camp beneath it in sub-zero temperatures...
...station hovers over the yellow, oozing sea of the planet Solaris. In retaliation for radiation bombardments from the station, the sentient sea creates figures from the spacemen's sub conscious and bounces them back up to the station to haunt the inhabitants and drive them to suicide. Not long after his arrival, Kelvin receives a spectral visitor of his own: his exwife, who killed herself back on earth years before. Kelvin is immediately smitten by a lethal mixture of love and guilt, and his mission - and the fate of the space station - is imperiled...
...pitifully few sub-plots involved two lovers, played by Macaire Henderson and Scott Atherton. Henderson brings a fine voice and strong stage presence to the show, while Atherton only manages to look ill-at-ease...
...Glomar Explorer haul up a 5,500-ton weight from the ocean floor? Taking cues from tiny radio beacons placed near the sub, a computer aboard the ship directed an array of water jets and propellers that kept the Glomar-and its suspended claws-in place against waves and currents...
...about 400. The racking began early on, when the crewmen were told what the ship's real mission was and given secrecy pledges to sign. Says one crewman: "They told us that they were the same kind of documents Daniel Ellsberg had signed." During the lift of the sub, the ship heaved and groaned so much that some feared it would tear apart. Others fretted about the Soviet spy trawlers that were frequently spotted. Says Joe Rodriguez, who was recruited for the mission out of a Hollywood hairdressing salon because he had served a Navy stint on an aircraft...