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...ball bearing, its aluminized Mylar film kept tightly inflated by 20 Ibs. of vaporized anthraquinone, a normally solid organic chemical. When its 100-ft. sphere moved on its orbit 1,000 miles away from the surface of the earth, it covered about one-tenth the angle of the planet Venus at 40 million miles, but it did not show as a disk even in a powerful telescope. The sun reflecting on its spherical surface showed as a mathematical point, as stars...
...less invigorating climes were already shuttering up, Blackpool began the biggest six weeks of its season, a grand finale known as the "Street Illuminations," when the city's thoroughfares are a carnival of flamboyant tableaux, ranging this year from a lurid facsimile of Botticelli's Birth oj Venus to a cancan...
...capability to guide a rocket on an interplanetary mission. Says Martin's Demoret: "Guidance is an engineering problem, and we don't think it's a great one at all. We already can do the job. Whether we go to the moon, to Mars or to Venus, we'll be able to guide space vehicles accurately enough...
Future venturers to Mars and Venus will encounter great survival difficulties, including a temperature on Venus "well over the boiling point of water." Liller noted that, although certain parts of Mars sometimes reach a balmy 85 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, the prospective explorers would have a rough time surviving the 156-degree-below-zero nights...
Numerous colored slides illustrated Messer's point: the object of art is to say things never said before. During his comparison of Boucher's sensuous "Venus" with De Kooning's grotesque figure of "Woman," Messer commented that modern art attempts to tell the truth even if the subject is not pretty...