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Colonizing Venus. But mankind's increasing needs will soon take him beyond the moon to the nearby planets. Even Venus, with a surface temperature of nearly 1,000° F. and a thick atmosphere consisting largely of carbon dioxide, will not, says Berry, intimidate 21st century scientists. He notes that there is already a proposal to inject into the atmosphere of Venus hardy algae that feed on carbon dioxide. This would liberate oxygen, let heat escape from the planet's surface, and cause condensed water vapor to fall as rain. Oceans would form, plants could take root...
Other producers have put their millions into reviving the time-honored disaster-film-subcategory-pestilence. In addition to Phase IV, the saga of the marching ants, Paramount will present The Haephestus Plague, a double whammy in which another earthquake disgorges thousands of carbon-munching giant cockroaches from the bowels of the earth. "We are breeding and training real South American bugs," says Producer William Castle. Reminded, perhaps, of the "feelies" of Huxley's Brave New World-in which audiences were electronically tuned in to experience the physical impact of every love scene and head-bonking shown on the screen...
...world. Part of India's monsoon rains are now dropping uselessly into the ocean. In the past six years, the Sahara has expanded 100 miles southward in some places. Scientists are baffled by the phenomenon, but some suspect it may be caused by sun spots or increased carbon dioxide and dust in the atmosphere, or a combination of both...
Producer-director Nick Harris's production is not intended to be a carbon copy of the Athenian Helen, originally presented in 412 B.C. the 1692-line original, which would have lasted about three hours without intermissions, has been cut by approximately two-thirds. These cuttings are skillful--the portions that contain the most action and intensity of feeling have been retained, as have (with minor deletions) the long soliloquies...
...smokers who breathe "second-hand smoke" (the Surgeon General calls it "passive inhalation") suffer the same adverse consequences as smokers. Seconds after breathing cigarette smoke, the non-smoker's heart beats faster, his blood pressure rises, and the carbon monoxide in his blood increases. The non-smoker might even face a greater danger from cigarettes than the smoker. The cigarette filter often protects the smoker; the non-smoker has no such protection and must breathe the smoke that wafts his way from the cigarette's end. That unfiltered smoke contains more cadmium than is contained in filtered smoke. (Cadmium...