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...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 and grow, and Venus would be ready for colonizers from earth...
More out of frustration than real commitment, he got involved in politics. The Nixon administration became his strawman. In Nixon, he saw the root to his troubles, the cause of his alienation...
...Broad and Chancellor streets, Mrs. Alberta Taylor, a retired schoolteacher, gazed with admiration at the massive throng-bigger, said some, than the crowds that turned out to mark the end of World War II-and declared: "It's been so long since we've had anything to root for in Philadelphia. I'm so excited and proud...
Heady Stuff. There is plenty to root for these days in Philadelphia, long the city of brotherly losers, where over the years sports fans have become so frustrated that they once booed Santa Claus when he turned up at a football game. Not only did the Flyers triumph, but the Phillies-the Phillies?-are leading the Eastern Division of the National League. Heady stuff, and emblematic of the fact that things are looking up in Philadelphia, that citadel of conservatism, the faded dowager of the East Coast, the yawn between New York City and Washington, the well-kicked butt...
From what Great or Dismal Swamp in the American male psyche flows the Big Two-Hearted River? Where is the root of the city man's bloody compulsion to prowl the Big Woods and kill the beasts that live there? It is uncertain whether the source of that compulsion is the nature of man or the nature of boy, but it is explored with splendid eccentricity in this energetic first novel by Robert F. Jones, a senior writer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...