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...partisan scandalmongering in which all candidates traffic, the nation's political air seems especially contaminated this year -thick with the taint of special favors, dirty money, interparty espionage, intimations of official power in the service of corporate friends. Nothing has yet been proved exactly, but the cloud hangs over Washington like an inversion. When Martha Mitchell fled to New York, taking her husband with her, she spoke a bit Delphicly about "all those dirty things that go on." Democratic polemicists suggest that the capital was not nearly so dirty until John Mitchell and Richard Nixon arrived...
While the U.S. space program has concentrated on the exploration of the moon and Mars, Soviet scientists have trained their sights on cloud-enshrouded Venus. Since 1961, Russia has launched at least ten missions to Venus, most of them intended to land instrumented packages on the surface of the planet; by comparison, the U.S. has undertaken only two less ambitious flyby probes. The persistent Soviet effort has paid off. After careful analysis of data from Venera 8, which transmitted signals for 50 minutes after making a landing in July, Russian scientists have lifted still more of the veil from...
...darkness when Venera 8 arrived, but the Russians managed to land their spacecraft in the narrow crescent that was illuminated by the sun. With the aid of Venera's photometer, Soviet scientists could determine that about two-thirds of the solar radiation striking Venus penetrates the thick cloud cover and reaches the surface. Thus there is a long (about 116 earth days) period of daylight as well as a lengthy nighttime on the surface of Venus, which revolves on its axis only once every 243 earth days. Surprisingly, the surface does not cool during the long period of darkness...
...just thinking that a year ago. Restic and Bostonians buzzing with talk about the revolution he was going to pull off in the Harvard football program. For 13 years, the Crimson had been under the staid hand of John Yovicsin, who strongly believed in the three yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust approach to the game. You know, Yovicsin was pretty Puritan in his outlook--he wanted his squads to take just enough to get by and not give up any frivolous benefits to the opponents. Defense and grind it out'. That fitted John...
...buildup of electrical potential during a storm, and thus to prevent the occurrence of damaging lightning. Like iron filings near a bar magnet, the 4-in.-long, hair-thin fibers, when released in a thunderhead, align themselves with the lines of force in the electrical field of the cloud. What is more, negative and positive charges build up at opposite ends of the fibers, creating miniature electrical fields and ionizing the air around them. The ionization increases the conductivity of air within the thunderhead and allows electrons to flow from the bottom of the cloud to the top, sharply reducing...