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...century, the nude in French art had retained some measure of Gothic proportion- elongated torso, small high breasts - and a distinct aura of remoteness. Boucher's nude was small, full and rounded: a compact little machine à plaisir, borne up like a plump rose on tumultuous puffs of cloud or sprawled, replete with the matter-of-fact enjoyment of her own narcissism, on a tangled day bed. Indeed Louis XV's true escutcheon was the round, dimpled bottom of Boucher's favorite model, an inhabitant of the Deer Park (as the villa where the royal mistresses lived...
...Stanley Cloud...
...groups now being touched by crisis and material shortage. Bankers and finance men in Western cities ride along the raw edges of panic with their Wall Street colleagues. Many in the resort trade are petrified. The trade conventions of men in the petrochemical industry are held under a cloud of doubt. The immense plastics industry is nearing a slowdown...
...space, the 570-lb. robot gave man his first close-up look at the giant planet Jupiter. After penetrating intense radiation belts that pack radiation dosages at least 1,000 times the level regarded as lethal for humans, Pioneer passed just 81,000 miles above the multicolored Jovian cloud tops, took color pictures, gathered oth er data and then was hurled by the enormous gravitational pull of the sun's larg est planet onto a course that will eventually carry it out of the solar sys tem, toward the stars - the first object from earth ever to embark...
...times stronger than the earth's-follows what the scientists variously dubbed a "Saturn ring" and "Hula-Hoop" model; that is, the lines of magnetic force seem to stretch outward near the equator but are more rounded at the poles. The average temperature of Jupiter's cloud tops is somewhat above 200°F. with no apparent variations on the day and night sides; this fact tends to confirm the widely accepted idea that Jupiter-which is so large that it barely missed generating its own nuclear fires and becoming a star -is giving off some internal heat...