 How would Sandra's journaling experience been if she had not met Doc?
Silently, so as not to shock anyone with illusions about well dressed young women, Sandra Lea Grayling cursed the day she had persuaded the Chicago Space Mirror that there would be all sorts of human interest stories to be picked up at the first international grandmaster chess tournament in which an electronic computing machine was entered. Her last assignment had been to interview the pilot pair riding the first American manned circum-lunar satellite—and the five alternate pairs who hadn't made the flight. Sandra's chief difficulty was that she knew absolutely nothing about the game of chess—a point that she had slid over in conferring with the powers at the Space Mirror , but that now had begun to weigh on her.
 She would have likely written a very vague article due to her lack of experience with chess.
 She would have struggled to identify all the competitors to name in her article if it was not for Doc.  She would have had more time to get a better understanding to write about the Machine if Doc had not taken up all her time talking.  She would have likely written a very vague article due to her lack of experience with chess.  She would have not struggled as much with writing since Doc gave her excess information.